The Problem of a Preface
_ Introduction to the First Edition
Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him.
G. K. C.
_The Problem of a Preface_
A peculiar difficulty arrests the writer of this rough study at the very start. Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would write a very long preface even to a very short play. And there is truth in the idea； he is indeed a very prefatory sort of person. He always gives the explanation before the incident； but so, for the matter of that, does the Gospel of St. John. For Bernard Shaw, as for the mystics, Christian and heathen (and Shaw is best described as a heathen mystic), the philosophy of facts is anterior to the facts themselves. In due time we come to the fact, the incarnation； but in the beginning was the Word.
This produces upon many minds an impression of needless preparation and a k

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