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In the late 19th century when spiritual confusion through social and economical contradiction and conflict between religion and science and sufferers consciousness surged in the Britain Bernard Shaw joined the Fabian Society and over eight years exerted himself for the propaganda of the Fabianism and the need of social improvement. In taking active part in the Fabian Society, Shaw wrote Fabian Essays with Sydney Webb. In Fabian Essays Shaw expressed his fabianism well and he published Fabian Tract and the monthly Fabian News, too. In the Fabian Essays in 1889 Shaw's wish was the formation of beneficial agency organization which synthesized ill-balanced produce in a region and distribute it as residents' effort. Shaw tried gradual reformation through the permeation into liberalists. Those days he pointed out socialists' illusion boldly. He recognized that success or failure of nation's organization depends on how people operate it and found the realistic method of mass production of gentlemen class. But Shaw recognized that human remodeling needs considerable time because men are accustomed to traditional method of life and thinking. He pointed out that the socialism except Fabianism as well as Marxism is the intellectual disguise of proletariat liberalism, criticizing that socialists have a point of view of liberalistic illusion. The illusion he pointed out is religious one that revolutionary day would be the beginning of golden age and the Marxist drama of class struggle. Shaw insisted that the institution of human society must satisfy requirements of flexibility to keep face with the ascending movement of life and suggested that fabianism would overcome defect of the capitalism and remove the socialistic illusion. Shaw's recognition that no one can reform himself before the society would develop upwards and reform is humanistic and for this reason, as I pointed out previously, fabianism means moralism and intellectualism of the middle class aganist Marx's proletariatlism. So we can judge that Shaw's Fabianism is conspicuously moral and intellectual.