Abstract
Bernard Shaw lived at a time when you had to shout to be heard. He was in turn waggish, outrageous and self-assertive, but the real Shaw was, as his friends testified, shy and sensitive. He was, in a sense, a deeply religious man. Running through much of what he said was a belief in an ultimate power in the universe, which he called the Life Force. The Life Force was what made things go round as well as go-wrong.