... fifty years of essays, letters, and articles collected for the first time in book form.

I am afraid of a soldier, not because he is a brave man, but because he is so utterly unmanned by discipline that he will kill me if he is told, even when he knows that the order is given because I am trying to overthrow the oppression which he fears and hates.

—George Bernard Shaw, "A Dramatic Realist to His Critics," The New Review XI, July 1894, collected in Shaw on Theatre, ed. E. J. West.