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The One Thing That Unifies Men In A Given Age Is Not Their Individual Philosophies But The Dominant Problem That These Philosophies Are Designed To Solve.

Like Rousseau, Whom He Resembles Even More Than He Resembles Voltaire, Shaw Never Gave A Social Form To His Assertiveness, Never Desired To Arrive And To Assimilate Himself, Or Wield Authority As Of Right.

It Is Not Clear To Anyone, Least Of All The Practitioners, How Science And Technology In Their Headlong Course Do Or Should Influence Ethics And Law, Education And Government, Art And Social Philosophy, Religion And The Life Of The Affections. Yet Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

Music, Not Being Made Up Of Objects Nor Referring To Objects, Is Intangible And Ineffable; It Can Only Be As It Were Inhaled By The Spirit: The Rest Is Silence.

We Cannot Appreciate The Art Of Any Age Without First Acquiring An Equivalent Of The Experience It Depicts.