Between St. Dennis and St. George; A Sketch of Three Civilisations

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B MR. SHAW'S "COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR" It is my purpose to co [...]
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX B MR. SHAW'S "COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR" It is my purpose to comment upon or to answer, sentence by sentence, as much of Mr. Shaw's complete writings about the present war as I imagine a fairly patient reader can bring himself to contemplate. I. MR. SHAW'S PERSONAL BIAS "Common Sense about the War," i, page I, col. I: Besides, until Home Rule emerges from its present suspended animation, I shall retain my Irish capacity for criticising England with something of the detachment of a foreigner, and perhaps with a certain slightly malicious taste for taking the conceit out of her. It should be remembered that the most pitiful case in the world at the present moment is the case of Prussian Poland, and, in ably advocating the cause of Prussia, Mr. Shaw is advocating, to the measure of his abilities, a very abominable oppression. And whilst it is extremely creditable in a descendant of those Scotch Presbyterians who formed the garrison that Great Britain employed for the oppression of Ireland, to wish to atone for some of the religious murders and brigandage which his ancestors have committed upon the Irish, that propitiatory attitude is hardly sufficient excuse for advocating a cause which, if it succeeds, must perpetuate the religious murders and brigandages of Prussia upon the territories of Poland, Schleswig-Holstein, and Belgium. Whatever may have been the motives of the Allies in undertaking the present war, it can never be sufficiently remembered that the success of the Allies will bring about the freeing of a great many subject races. It cannot be sufficiently remembered that the oppressions to which these races are subjected are very real, very galling, and deliberately aimed at race murder. Whatever the motives of the...