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Shaw Absolutely Dated

graphical. Thematic references are limited to Creative Evolution, Darwinism, Idealism, Life Force, Pan-psychism, Realism (metaphysical, Shavian), Solipsism, and a few others. Yet the index to a work so dense in discussions of ideologies deserves a far broader selection of rubrics (and subheadings) as evidence of the important role played in it—and frequently in Shaw’s thinking—by concepts such as Consciousness, Democracy, Design, Determinism, Economics, Epiphenomenalism, Ethics, Faith, God, Imprisonment, Materialism (atheistic, scientific), Morality, Moral Equality, Politics, Realism (dramatic, scientific), Relativism, Subjectivism, Teleology, Truth, Vitalism, and Will (free, human, world-). Bernard Shaw’s Remarkable Religion: A Faith That Fits the Facts is a wideranging overview of Shaw’s beliefs, their self-contradictions and practical applications, and the controversies they continue to generate. The rubrics listed above are merely signposts to a complex system of thought whose ‘‘astounding consistency’’ is nothing less than a tour de force, given Shaw’s longevity and the sociopolitical upheavals he witnessed. Stuart E. Baker’s book will reward those wishing to learn how Shaw’s ‘‘faith’’ (his beliefs, ideology, philosophy, or worldview) ‘‘fits the facts,’’ and not only the facts as Shaw perceived them, but the facts as science has reinterpreted them— for better or worse—during the half-century since his death.