...in an hour of perverse philosophy. Consider Shaw's most splendid revelation of his personality : " This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one ; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the...

...speak many-tongued ; Nature is a living presence ; and every instant of life seethes with meaning. For "this is the true joy in life, the being used for...being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and...

...only a world of Shavians to whom "the true joy of life" is "the being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly...thrown on the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature." Need I say that that ideal has its own valour and nobility? But we cannot all be social reformers or...

...says Mrs. Pankhurst. "I am a fate," said Xietzsche. "This is the true joy in life," says Bernard Shaw, "the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one." — Walter Lippmann in Drift and Mastery. Z5l)c Cibrar? Oable HABITS THAT HANDICAP. By Charles B. Towns,...

...instance, Mr. Shaw's fine declaration in the Preface to Man and Superman : " This is the true joy of life — • the being used for a purpose recognized...worn out before you are thrown on the scrap-heap." liance is but the last of a long list ; but his attitude in all of them, and especially the later ones,...

...to the following words of this curious mixture of materialist and mystic : "This is the true joy of life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining...

...entirely sincere; we feel sure that this time he is not posing, or laughing at his audience. He says: "This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the...

...it with the now intolerably hackneyed quotation which endears Shaw to the Nonconformist conscience : "This is the true joy in life, the being used for...being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish little selfish clod of ailments and grievances...

...sword to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it." This is the true joy in life, the being used for a...being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances,...

...alone he " would not face the toil of writing a single sentence." He speaks, as one who knows it, of " the true joy, in life, the being used for a purpose...by yourself as a mighty one ; the being thoroughly worn-out before you are thrown on the scrap-heap." He denies that he has " any illusion as to the permanence...