Bernard Shaw: Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-u

Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attai — Bernard Shaw

Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.

Bernard Shaw

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