AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Bernard Shaw was twenty-six before he turned his thoughts towards political and economic science and his energies towards social reform. The importance of the economic basis," as he has called it, first dawned on him at a lecture given by Henry George before the Land Nationalization Society in London in 1882. Nevertheless, during his boyhood and youth in Dublin, influences were at work which help to explain his later career. The boy's father, George Carr Shaw, was an *rish Protestant who fought a losing battle to maintain his position in upper middle-class society. He was a timid, inefficient man holding first a minor post in the Dublin Courts of Justice and later becoming an unsuccessful wholesale dealer in corn.[...]