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In which Mr Shaw contemplates the uneasy dance between superstition and science, urging the shedding of literalist dogmas in favour of a shared, allegorical spirituality capable of uniting a diverse and democratic polity. He then turns his keen eye to the theatre, lamenting its spiritual barrenness since Shakespeare and Ibsen, and yearning for a revival rooted in the fresh and vigorous faith of Creative Evolution that might inspire both artist and audience anew.
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