CONSISTENCY

Shannon News, 4 September 1928, Page 4

CONSISTENCY

The younger generation seems to 'forget that Wordsworth and Shelley and Keats and Byron were revolutionists; revolutionists wbo initiated .the romantic freedom of the early Victorian pen.od from whose later tyranny, when freedom degenerated into conventions, the' youthful rebels of to-day are escaping. The men who imposed the feudal laws upon the chaos of early Europe were as much revolutionists as were the men who eventually broke feudalism down. The two men, Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells-hke them or leave them, it's true—who have more than anv others, save Einstcm and Freud, in" the past twenty years affected the thought of the speaking peoples and through the Eng-lish-speaking peoples the thought of the world,,have steadfastly refused since their extreme youth to call themselves revolutionists. They have been. . .revolutionists, changing constantly their points of view to meet new conditions It was Shaw who first made valid the ,«trut.h that the man who does not ■change his view-point from time to time is a fool. Before then, consistency at all costs was considered a jewel. • .-..■;