The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

B. In 1901-2 he was in close contact with the Independent Labour Party. The translation of Œdipus Rex was a commission from W.

George Gilbert Aimé Murray OM (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual with connections in many spheres. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.