The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
                                            
                            By George Bernard Shaw
                            
                                11 Dec, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Excerpt.......If there were no God, said the eighteenth century Deist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Now this XVIII century god was deus ex machina, the god who helped those who could not help themselves, the god of the lazy and incapable. The
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                                                Excerpt.......If there were no God, said the eighteenth century Deist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Now this XVIII century god was deus ex machina, the god who helped those who could not help themselves, the god of the lazy and incapable. The nineteenth-century decided that there is indeed no such god, and now Man must take in hand all the work that he used to shirk with an idle prayer. He must, in effect, change himself into the political Providence which he formerly conceived as god; and such change is not only possible but the only sort of change that is real. Less