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a play by G. B. Shaw, first performed in 1922; it is its author's most complete dramatization of his theory of ‘creative evolution’. Subtitled ‘a metabiological pentateuch’, it opens in the Garden of Eden, where Eve is confronted with a serpent who teaches her the facts of life and death and shares its evolutionary hopes: ‘You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.’ After an episode involving Cain, pioneer of destruction and fake heroism, the action shifts to ... ...
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