6The Progressive
299Technical Instruction
7The Critic
300Docility and Dependence
8The Dramatist
301The Abuse of Docility
9The Philosopher
302The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
10Widowers’ Houses (1892)
303The Comings of Age of Children
11ACT I
304The Conflict of Wills
12ACT II
305The Demagogue’s Opportunity
13ACT III
306Our Quarrelsomeness
14The Philanderer (1898)
307We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
15ACT I
308The Pursuit of Manners
16ACT II
309Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
17ACT III
310Wanted: a Child’s Magna Charta
18ACT IV
311The Pursuit of Learning
19Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898)
312Children and Game: a Proposal
20THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY
313The Parents’ Intolerable Burden
21ACT I
314Mobilization
22ACT II
315Children’s Rights and Parents’ Wrongs
23ACT III
316How Little We Know About Our Parents
24ACT IV
317Our Abandoned Mothers
25The Man Of Destiny (1897)
318Family Affection
26Arms And The Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts (1894)
319The Fate of the Family
27INTRODUCTION
320Family Mourning
28ACT I
321Art Teaching
29ACT II
322The Impossibility of Secular Education
30ACT III
323Natural Selection as a Religion
31Candida (1898)
324Moral Instruction Leagues
32ACT I
325The Bible
33ACT II
326Artist Idolatry
34ACT III
327“The Machine”
35You Never Can Tell (1897)
328The Provocation to Anarchism
36ACT I
329Imagination
37ACT II
330Government by Bullies
38ACT III
331MISALLIANCE (PLAY) (pt. 1)
39ACT IV
332MISALLIANCE (PLAY) (pt. 2)
40The Devil’s Disciple (1897)
333PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS
41ACT I
334How the Play came to be Written
42ACT II
335Thomas Tyler
43ACT III
336Frank Harris
44NOTES TO THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
337Harris “durch Mitleid wissend”
45BURGOYNE
338“Sidney’s Sister: Pembroke’s Mother”
46BRUDENELL
339Shakespear’s Social Standing
47Captain Brassbound’s Conversion (1900)
340This Side Idolatry
48ACT I
341Shakespear’s Pessimism
49ACT II
342Gaiety of Genius
50ACT III
343Jupiter and Semele
51NOTES TO CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND’S CONVERSION
344The Idol of the Bardolaters
52SOURCES OF THE PLAY
345Shakespear’s alleged Sycophancy and Perversion
53ENGLISH AND AMERICAN DIALECTS
346Shakespear and Democracy
54PROLOGUE
347Shakespear and the British Public
55AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROLOGUE
348THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS (PLAY)
56ACT I
349PREFACE TO FANNY’S FIRST PLAY
57ACT II
350INDUCTION
58ACT III
351ACT I
59ACT IV
352ACT II
60ACT V
353ACT III
61NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
354EPILOGUE
62CLEOPATRA’S CURE FOR BALDNESS
355PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
63APPARENT ANACHRONISMS
356WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL?
64CLEOPATRA
357WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?
65BRITANNUS
358WAS JESUS A COWARD?
66JULIUS CAESAR
359WAS JESUS A MARTYR?
67The Gadfly Or The Son of the Cardinal (1898)
360THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE
68ACT I.
361THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES
69ACT II.
362WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY
70ACT III.
363RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM
71ACT IV.
364THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
72SCENE I
365SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY
73SCENE II
366RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER
74PREFACE
367COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN
75ACT I
368JOHN BARLEYCORN
76ACT II
369LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
77Scene I
370THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE
78Scene II
371MATTHEW
79ACT IV
372THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT
80NOTE ON MODERN PRIZEFIGHTING
373JOHN THE BAPTIST
81EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY
374JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS
82ACT I
375THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS
83ACT II
376JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST
84ACT III (pt. 1)
377THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS
85ACT III (pt. 2)
378THE MIRACLES
86ACT IV
379MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS
87John Bull’s Other Island (1904)
380THE GREAT CHANGE
88ACT I
381JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE
89ACT II
382NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS
90ACT III
383THE RESURRECTION
91ACT IV
384DATE OF MATTHEW’S NARRATIVE
92How He Lied To Her Husband (1904)
385CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW’S JESUS
93PREFACE
386MARK: THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION
94HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND (PLAY)
387LUKE
95PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA: FIRST AID TO CRITICS
388LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST
96THE GOSPEL OF ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAFT
389THE CHARM OF LUKE’S NARRATIVE
97THE SALVATION ARMY
390THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE
98BARBARA’S RETURN TO THE COLORS.
391WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH
99WEAKNESSES OF THE SALVATION ARMY.
392JOHN
100CHRISTIANITY AND ANARCHISM
393A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER
101SANE CONCLUSIONS
394JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS
102ACT I
395THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS
103ACT II
396JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION
104ACT III
397CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS
105Passion, Poison, And Petrifaction (1905): OR, THE FATAL GAZOGENE
398FASHIONS OF BELIEF
106PREFACE
399CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH
107DOUBTFUL CHARACTER BORNE BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
400CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST
108DOCTOR’S CONSCIENCES
401THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS
109THE PECULIAR PEOPLE
402THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY
110RECOIL OF THE DOGMA OF MEDICAL INFALLIBILITY ON THE DOCTOR
403MODERN COMMUNISM
111WHY DOCTORS DO NOT DIFFER
404REDISTRIBUTION
112THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS
405SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN
113CREDULITY AND CHLOROFORM
406LABOR TIME
114MEDICAL POVERTY
407THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT
115THE SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR
408VITAL DISTRIBUTION
116THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SELFRESPECT IN SURGEONS
409EQUAL DISTRIBUTION
117ARE DOCTORS MEN OF SCIENCE?
410THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY
118BACTERIOLOGY AS A SUPERSTITION
411THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY
119ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES OF IMMUNIZATION
412JESUS AS ECONOMIST
120THE PERILS OF INOCULATION
413JESUS AS BIOLOGIST
121TRADE UNIONISM AND SCIENCE
414MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM
122DOCTORS AND VIVISECTION
415JUDGE NOT
123THE PRIMITIVE SAVAGE MOTIVE
416LIMITS TO FREE WILL
124THE HIGHER MOTIVE. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE.
417JESUS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
125THE FLAW IN THE ARGUMENT
418WHY JESUS DID NOT MARRY
126LIMITATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE
419INCONSISTENCY OF THE SEX INSTINCT
127A FALSE ALTERNATIVE
420FOR BETTER OR WORSE
128CRUELTY FOR ITS OWN SAKE
421THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE
129OUR OWN CRUELTIES
422CELIBACY NO REMEDY
130THE SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUELTY
423AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
131SUGGESTED LABORATORY TESTS OF THE VIVISECTOR’S EMOTIONS
424THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN
132ROUTINE
425PAUL
133THE OLD LINE BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST
426THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM.
134VIVISECTING THE HUMAN SUBJECT
427THE SECRET OF PAUL’S SUCCESS
135“THE LIE IS A EUROPEAN POWER”
428PAUL’S QUALITIES
136AN ARGUMENT WHICH WOULD DEFEND ANY CRIME
429THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
137THOU ART THE MAN
430THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
138WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WILL NOT GET
431THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS.
139THE VACCINATION CRAZE
432CREDULITY NO CRITERION.
140STATISTICAL ILLUSIONS
433BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION.
141THE SURPRISES OF ATTENTION AND NEGLECT
434THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE.
142STEALING CREDIT FROM CIVILIZATION
435“THE HIGHER CRITICISM.”
143BIOMETRIKA
436THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM.
144PATIENT-MADE THERAPEUTICS
437THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME.
145THE REFORMS ALSO COME FROM THE LAITY
438THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT.
146FASHIONS AND EPIDEMICS
439THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY.
147THE DOCTOR’S VIRTUES
440CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE.
148THE DOCTOR’S HARDSHIPS
441PROLOGUE
149THE PUBLIC DOCTOR
442ACT I
150MEDICAL ORGANIZATION
443ACT II
151THE SOCIAL SOLUTION OF THE MEDICAL PROBLEM
444Afterword
152THE FUTURE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE
445PREFACE TO OVERRULED
153THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM
446THE ALLEVIATIONS OF MONOGAMY
154THE LATEST THEORIES
447INACCESSIBILITY OF THE FACTS
155ACT I
448THE CONVENTION OF JEALOUSY
156ACT II
449THE MISSING DATA OF A SCIENTIFIC NATURAL HISTORY OF MARRIAGE
157ACT III
450ARTIFICIAL RETRIBUTION
158ACT IV
451THE FAVORITE SUBJECT OF FARCICAL COMEDY
159ACT V
452THE PSEUDO SEX PLAY
160The Interlude At The Playhouse (1907)
453ART AND MORALITY
161PREFACE TO GETTING MARRIED
454THE LIMITS OF STAGE PRESENTATION
162THE REVOLT AGAINST MARRIAGE
455PRUDERIES OF THE FRENCH STAGE
163MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE
456OUR DISILLUSIVE SCENERY
164WHAT DOES THE WORD MARRIAGE MEAN
457HOLDING THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE
165SURVIVALS OF SEX SLAVERY
458FARCICAL COMEDY SHIRKING ITS SUBJECT
166A NEW ATTACK ON MARRIAGE
459OVERRULED (PLAY)
167A FORGOTTEN CONFERENCE OF MARRIED MEN
460PREFACE TO PYGMALION
168HEARTH AND HOME
461ACT I
169TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
462ACT II
170LARGE AND SMALL FAMILIES
463ACT III
171THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA
464ACT IV
172FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
465ACT V
173WANTED: AN IMMORAL STATESMAN
466APPENDIX
174THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY
467THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY FOR GREAT CATHERINE
175THE SCIENCE AND ART OF POLITICS
468THE FIRST SCENE
176WHY STATESMEN SHIRK THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
469THE SECOND SCENE
177THE QUESTION OF POPULATION
470THE THIRD SCENE
178THE RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
471THE FOURTH SCENE
179MONOGAMY, POLYGYNY AND POLYANDRY
472The Music Cure (1913)
180THE MALE REVOLT AGAINST POLYGYNY
473Beauty’s Duty (Unfinished) (1913)
181DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL POLYGYNY
474O’Flaherty, V. C. (1915)
182THE OLD MAID’S RIGHT TO MOTHERHOOD
475A RECRUITING PAMPHLET
183IBSEN’S CHAIN STITCH
476O’FLAHERTY V.C. (PLAY)
184REMOTENESS OF THE FACTS FROM THE IDEAL
477Macbeth Skit (unfinished): ACT I. SCENE V.
185DIFFICULTY OF OBTAINING EVIDENCE
478Glastonbury Skit (unfinished) (1916)
186MARRIAGE AS A MAGIC SPELL
479The Inca Of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta (1916)
187THE IMPERSONALITY OF SEX
480PROLOGUE
188THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY OF WOMEN
481INCA OF PERUSALEM (PLAY)
189UNPOPULARITY OF IMPERSONAL VIEWS
482Augustus Does His Bit (1916)
190IMPERSONALITY IS NOT PROMISCUITY
483PREFACE
191DOMESTIC CHANGE OF AIR
484AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT (PLAY)
192HOME MANNERS ARE BAD MANNERS
485Skit For The Tiptaft Revue (1917)
193SPURIOUS “NATURAL” AFFECTION
486Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress (1917): ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS (PLAY)
194CARRYING THE WAR INTO THE ENEMY’S COUNTRY
487HEARTBREAK HOUSE AND HORSEBACK HALL
195SHELLEY AND QUEEN VICTORIA
488Where Heartbreak House Stands
196A PROBABLE EFFECT OF GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE
489The Inhabitants
197THE PERSONAL SENTIMENTAL BASIS OF MONOGAMY
490Horseback Hall
198DIVORCE
491Revolution on the Shelf
199IMPORTANCE OF SENTIMENTAL GRIEVANCE
492The Cherry Orchard
200DIVORCE WITHOUT ASKING WHY
493Nature’s Long Credits
201ECONOMIC SLAVERY AGAIN THE ROOT DIFFICULTY
494The Wicked Half Century
202LABOR EXCHANGES AND THE WHITE SLAVERY
495Hypochondria
203CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
496Those who do not know how to live must make a Merit of Dying
204DIVORCE A SACRAMENTAL DUTY
497War Delirium
205OTHELLO AND DESDEMONA
498Madness in Court
206WHAT IS TO BECOME OF THE CHILDREN?
499The Long Arm of War
207THE COST OF DIVORCE
500The Rabid Watchdogs of Liberty
208CONCLUSIONS
501The Sufferings of the Sane
209GETTING MARRIED (PLAY) (pt. 1)
502Evil in the Throne of Good
210GETTING MARRIED (PLAY) (pt. 2)
503Straining at the Gnat and swallowing the Camel
211PREFACE
504Little Minds and Big Battles
212THE CENSORSHIP
505The Dumb Capables and the Noisy Incapables
213A READABLE BLUEBOOK
506The Practical Business Men
214HOW NOT TO DO IT
507How the Fools shouted the Wise Men down
215THE STORY OF THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
508The Mad Election
216WHY THE MANAGERS LOVE THE CENSORSHIP
509The Yahoo and the Angry Ape
217A TWO GUINEA INSURANCE POLICY
510Plague on Both your Houses!
218WHY THE GOVERNMENT INTERFERED
511How the Theatre fared
219THE PEERS ON THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE
512The Soldier at the Theatre Front
220THE COMMITTEE’S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE THEATRE
513Heartbreak House
221A BAD BEGINNING
514Commerce in the Theatre
222A COMIC INTERLUDE
515Unser Shakespeare
223AN ANTI-SHAVIAN PANIC
516The Higher Drama put out of Action
224A RARE AND CURIOUS FIRST EDITION
517Church and Theatre
225THE TIMES TO THE RESCUE
518The Next Phase
226THE COUNCIL OF TEN
519The Ephemeral Thrones and the Eternal Theatre
227THE SENTENCE
520How War muzzles the Dramatic Poet
228THE EXECUTION
521ACT I
229PART I
522ACT II
230THE WITNESS’S QUALIFICATIONS
523ACT III
231THE DEFINITION OF IMMORALITY
524PREFACE
232WHAT TOLERATION MEANS
525The Infidel Half Century
233THE CASE FOR TOLERATION
526THE DAWN OF DARWINISM
234THE LIMITS TO TOLERATION
527THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS
235THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAW AND CENSORSHIP
528POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL
236WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN?
529COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS
237THE DIPLOMATIC OBJECTION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN
530IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?
238THE OBJECTION OF COURT ETIQUET
531HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION
239WHY NOT AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP?
532THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
240THE WEAKNESS OF THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S DEPARTMENT
533FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION
241AN ENLIGHTENED CENSORSHIP STILL WORSE THAN THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN’S
534CREATIVE EVOLUTION
242THE PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITIES OF CENSORSHIP
535VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY
243THE ARBITRATION PROPOSAL
536THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS
244THE LICENSING OF THEATRES
537THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS
245THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN LICENSING AND CENSORSHIP
538HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED
246PROSTITUTION AND DRINK IN THEATRES
539THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION
247WHY THE MANAGERS DREAD LOCAL CONTROL
540HEREDITY AN OLD STORY
248DESIRABLE LIMITATIONS OF LOCAL CONTROL
541DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION
249SUMMARY
542CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION
250PREFACE RESUMED
543DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT
251MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER’S PROTEST
544IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE
252ELIZA AND HER BATH
545PALEY’S WATCH
253A KING’S PROCTOR
546THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!
254COUNSEL’S OPINION
547THE MOMENT AND THE MAN
255WANTED: A NEW MAGNA CHARTA
548THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT
256PROPOSED: A NEW STAR CHAMBER
549WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD
257POSSIBILITIES OF THE PROPOSAL
550HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE
258STAR CHAMBER SENTIMENTALITY
551DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE
259ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE
552THREE BLIND MICE
260SHALL THE EXAMINER OF PLAYS STARVE?
553THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELFCONTROL
261LORD GORELL’S AWAKENING
554A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE
262JUDGES: THEIR PROFESSIONAL LIMITATIONS
555THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
263CONCLUSION
556HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN
264THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET (PLAY)
557WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS
265Press Cuttings (1909)
558DARWIN AND KARL MARX
266PREFACE: PARENTS AND CHILDREN
559WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO
267Trailing Clouds of Glory
560THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM
268The Child is Father to the Man
561THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS
269What is a Child?
562POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS
270The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
563THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
271The Manufacture of Monsters
564CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE
272Small and Large Families
565THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM
273Children as Nuisances
566RELIGION AND ROMANCE
274Child Fanciers
567THE DANGER OF REACTION
275Childhood as a State of Sin
568A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA
276School
569WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS
277My Scholastic Acquirements
570A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES
278Schoolmasters of Genius
571THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
279What We Do Not Teach, and Why
572THE ARTIST-PROPHETS
280Taboo in Schools
573EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE
281Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
574MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER
282What is to be Done?
575PART I. In the Beginning
283Children’s Rights and Duties
576ACT I
284Should Children Earn their Living?
577ACT II
285Children’s Happiness
578PART II. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
286The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
579PART III. The Thing Happens
287University Schoolboyishness
580PART IV. Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman
288The New Laziness
581ACT I
289The Infinite School Task
582ACT II
290The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
583ACT III
291English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
584ACT IV
292The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
585PART V. As Far as Thought Can Reach
293The Common Sense of Toleration
586The War Indemnities (unfinished) (1921)
