You will remember Coleridge saying that "Shak keeps to the main highway of the human affections." GK [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] continues: "It attributes an irrational talismanic power to single words and memories and wallows in the idea of wild things that appear in action without ever sans ever having passed through thought ... I can suggest that GBS [George Bernard Shaw] became a socialist economist because he nearly swallowed a penny when he was a child.