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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: or not. All they want to know is; Am I orthodox? Am I correct in
my revolutionary views? Am I reverent to the revolutionary
authorities? Because I am a genuine free-thinker they look at me
as a policeman looks at a midnight prowler or as a Berlin
bourgeois looks at a suspicious foreigner. They ask "Do you
believe that Marx was omniscient and infallible; that Engels was
his prophet; that Bebel and Singer are his inspired apostles; and
that Das Kapital is the Bible?" Hastening in my innocence to
clear myself of what I regard as an accusation of credulity and
ignorance, I assure them earnestly that I know ten times as much
of economics and a hundred times as much of practical
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