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Sidney Webb, a picturesque little man with a big beard, once a civil servant, was, with Bernard Shaw and Graham Wallace, one of the leading lights in the Fabian Society−organization of Socialism which has done much to develop the Socialist idea in Britain along eminently sound economic lines, and is responsible in no little part for the moderation displayed by British Socialists today. The members of this Society founded the celebrated London School of Economics, which is now one of the most important centres of economic teaching in the world...
...member of the Fabian Society, the first socialist organization in England, which has become famous through two of its members, Mr. Sidney Webb and Mr. G. B. Shaw, Mr. Golding has had an exceptional opportunity to see from the inside the amazing growth of the British Labor Party. He is a member of the Rainbow Circle, the political group of liberal thinkers which includes among its members, Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Olivier, Mr. Noel Buxton and Mr. C. P. Trevellyan, all of whom are members of the cabinet of the present Labor Government...
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA, Sir Sidney Oliver, Fabian Socialist, but nearer a Liberal in practical politics. Has spent most of his life in the Civil Service, principally in connection with the administration of the colonies...
...speech, copies of which are disseminated by the Fabian Society of London, discussed the question: "Is Civilization Desirable?" Shaw answered that whether or not it is desirable it is rapidly being destroyed. "But," added the mocking, mordant, misanthropic Shaw, "nobody will take any notice of me. Nobody ever...
...Shaw, undoubtedly a predominant and scintillant Socialist littérateur of the Victorian Age, whose genius has spread to the contemporary era where it shines like a beacon in the stagnant morass of "middleclass morality," burst forth in the last of his Fabian Society lectures in a vivid address on Is Civilization Decaying...