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" That the established Government has no more right to call itself the State than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. That we had rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been. "
Thoughts Among the Ruins: Collected Essays on Europe and Beyond - Page 76
by George Lichtheim - 492 pages
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The Christian socialist, Volumes 1-2

1883 - 410 pages
...circumstances be enjoyed without dishonour, or foregone without misery ; and the last, that they would rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been. But our readers can obtain the Manifesto for themselves by sending a stamped and addressed envelope...
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The Windsor Magazine, Volume 3

1896 - 734 pages
...; the declaration " that men no longer need special privileges to protect them against women," and "that the established Government has no more right...the smoke of London has to call itself the weather." Many similar Shawisms might be re-culled from tracts now out of print. In more serious moods the society...
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The Windsor Magazine, Volume 3

1896 - 730 pages
...protect them against women," and " that the established Government has no more right to call itself tne State than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather." Many similar Shawisins might be re-culled from tracts now out of print. In more serious moods the society...
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George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works,a Critical Biography (authorized)

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 626 pages
...to protect them against women ; and that the sexes should henceforth enjoy equal political rights. " That the established Government has no more right...century of suffering as the present one has been." Tract No. 3, addressed " To Provident Landlords and Capitalists," urged the proprietary classes to...
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George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works,a Critical Biography (authorized)

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 626 pages
...privileges to protect them against women; and that the sexes should henceforth enjoy equal political rights. "That the established Government has no more right...the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. 105 question both from the Collectivist and Anarchist point of view, reveals the early Anarchistic...
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George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, a Critical Biography (authorized)

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 684 pages
...Mr. Shaw unstintingly ascribe to Mr. Webb the greatest measure of credit for formulating and direct" That we had rather face a civil war than such another...century of suffering as the present one has been." Tract No. 3, addressed "To Provident Landlords and Capitalists," urged the proprietary classes to support...
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George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works

Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 634 pages
...Shaw unstintingly ascribe to Mr. Webb the greatest measure of credit for formulating and direct"That we had rather face a civil war than such another century of suffering as the present one has been." Tract No. 3, addressed " To Provident Landlords and Capitalists," urged the proprietary classes to...
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George Bernard Shaw: A Critical Study

Joseph McCabe - 1914 - 292 pages
...children, so that every child may have a refuge from the tyranny or neglect of its natural custodians. " That the established Government has no more right...the smoke of London has to call itself the weather." We recognise Shaw more clearly than in the novels ; the Anarchism of the third proposition is all that...
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The Industrial History of Modern England

George Herbert Perris - 1914 - 636 pages
...custodians. . . . Men no longer need special political privileges to protect them against women. . . . The established Government has no more right to call...the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. We had rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been."...
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The Industrial History of Modern England

George Herbert Perris - 1914 - 634 pages
...has no more right to call itself the State than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. We had rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been." This was " Tract No. 2 " (1884). Tract No. 3 (1885) consisted of " A Suggestion and a Warning to Provident...
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