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				George Bernard Shaw Two Novels of Modern Soceity Pall Mall Gazette [1885-Jul-15] George Bernard Shaw, "Two Novels of Modern Society, review of Who Was Then The Gentleman, by Charles Reade," Pall Mall Gazette (July 15, 1885); reprinted in Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews, Originally Published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1885 to 1888, ed. by Brian Tyson (Penn State Press, 1991; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks-Preview); 369-373. Animals dislike being vivisected, but they also dislike being forced to bear burdens and draw loads. The difference is not in the pain endured by the animal, but in the fact that whereas there is no doubt than an intelligent horse would consent to do a reasonable quantity of work for its living if it were capable of economic reasoning , just as men do, it is equally certain that no horse would on any terms submit to vivisection. On this ground the vivisector violates that moral law; and on this ground he may be called hard names. __________ Shaws opinon of the practice of vivisection was unwavering. His first printed pronouncement on the subject of vivisection in the name of Science occurs just three months before this review, in the April 1885 episode of To-Day's serialization of Shaw's novel Cashel Byron's Profession, where Byron, the boxer, defend his profession by contrasting its cleanliness with that of a French doctors who "bakes dogs in ovens.". In the present review Shaw tackles the common rebuttal that the anti-vivisectionist is merely an "abusive sentimentalist." Eight years later, putting his preaching into practice, Shaw, in The Philanderer attacks vivisection on moral grounds; and, no doubt remembering his own censure of Compton Reade, he anticipates and outwits his critics by making the vivisector himself a sentimentalist. (Brian Tyson, ed., Bernard Shaw's Book Reviews [1991], 30)
	Animal Rights History Timeline: Victorian Age [1837-1901] [Victorian Age; Beginnings of the Anti-Vivisection Movement] [1856-1950] Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw, G. B. S. by earliest date [produced] or published; please submit additions to shaw@animalrightshistory.org [1837-1901] Victorian Age [1885-1897] Diary Entries on Vegetarianism [1885-Apr] Cashel Bryon's Profession, To-day [1885-Jul-15] Modern Society, Pall Mall Gazette [1886-Jan-23] Scotland Yard for Spectres, Pall Mall Gazette [1886-Jan-26] Failures of Inept Vegetarians, Pall Mall Gazette [1887-Dec-02] Tertium Quiddities, Pall Mall Gazette [1889-May-31] London Music: Musical Culture, Star [1889-Dec-27] London Music: Christmas at Broadstreet, Star [1890-Apr-05] London Music: Poor Old Philharmonic, Star [1891] Quintessence of Ibsenism [1895-1898] Vegetarian and Aboreal [1896-Jan] An Essay on Going to Church, Savoy [1896-1900] Ellen Terry Letters-Vegetarianism [1897 [1901]] Devil's Disciple [1898 [1905]] The Philanderer [1898-May] Valedictory, Saturday Review [1898-Oct] Wagner and Vegetables, Academy [1900] Dynamitards of Science, Speech Annual Meeting London Anti-Vivisection Society [1900-Apr] Conflict: Science and Common Sense, Humane Review [ [1901-May] Who I Am and What I Think, Candid Friend [1901-1945] 20thc-Modernism [1903] 1909] Admirable Baashville [Cashel Bryon's Profession] [1903 [1905]] Man and Superman: The Revolutionist's Handbook [1905 [1907]] Major Barbara [1903] Dramatic Opinions and Essays: Vegetarian and Arboreal [1906] 1911]] Doctor's Dilemma —Doctor's and Vivisection —Primitive Savage Motive —Higher Motive: Tree of Knowledge and the Flaw in the Argument —Limitations-Right to Knowledge —A False Alternative —Cruelty For Its Own Sake —Our Own Cruelties —Scientific Investigation of Cruelty —Routine —Old Line Between Man and Beast —Vivisecting a Human Subject —The Lie is a European Power —Argument would Defend Crime —Thou Art the Man [1906] Dramatic Opinions and Essays [1908] 1911] Getting Married [1909-Jan] Interview: Why is He a Vegetarian, Munsey's Magazine [1912] Uselessness of the Vivisection Inspector, Speech Annual Meeting British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection [1912] 1916]] Androcles and the Lion [1913-Feb] Vivisection, The Fra [1914] Killing for Sport [1916] Heartbreak House [1920] Ellen Terry Letters-Performing Animals [1921 [1922]] Back to Mehuselah —Darwinism: Three Blind Mice —Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas —Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman [1922] English Prisons Under Local Government [1925] Letter-Animals' Welfare Week [1927-Aug-27] Science of Imbeciles, Sunday Express [1927] Case Against Vivisection [1927] Experiments on Animals, Against Viviection [1927] These Scoundrels: Vivisection, the "Science" of Imbeciles [1933 [1934]] To True To Be Good [1927] Experiments on Animals [1927] Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism [1937] London Music [1947] Vegetarian Diet, The Vegetarian [1948] Vegetarian Diet Postcard [1949] Sixteen Self-Sketches [1949] Shaw on Vivisection Benard Shaw-Online Resources Exhibits@BrownUniversity: The Quintessential G.B.S.: Selections from the Sidney P. Albert-George Bernard Shaw Collection —Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of Bernard Shaw (1929); Online Preview at Google Books —A Bernard Shaw Chronology —Chronology of Shaw's Works, ShawSociety.Org						Animal Rights History Timeline: Victorian Age [1837-1901] [Victorian Age; Beginnings of the Anti-Vivisection Movement] [—Activists-Advocates-Authors] [—Victorian Animal Protection Law, Anti-Vivisection Legislation] [—Victorian Periodicals-Articles] [Abstinence from Animal Food] [Animal Rights Quotes] [Animal Rights Law] [Anti-Vivisection Quotes] [Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals] [Hunting, Blood-Sports, Cruelty] [Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets] [Religion-Religious Quotes Sermons Against Animal Cruelty] [Souls, Immortality, Future Life] [Humanity-Justice-Kindness] [Intelligence-Reason-Emotion] [Make Compassion the Fashion; Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather] [Cruelty-Slavery of Aniamls] [Strait from the Horse's Mouth: Words from Animals Themselves] [Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals] A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z [BCE-c485] Antiquity-BCE [c485-1450] Medieval [1450-1660] Renaissance [1660-1785] Enlightenment [1785-1837] Romantic Age [1837-1901] Victorian Age [1901-1945] 20thc-Modernism




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