Three lectures (1369, 1370, 1375), and in every one it arrives the same way - through Ted Kennedy's eulogy for his brother Robert, which quoted Shaw without attribution. Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I dream of things that never were and say, Why not? Neville notices the missing credit and excuses it with a remark he means seriously: he may not have given credit - at a moment like that why quote any name? After all, the most original thought in the world is divine plagiarism, for all things proceed from God. What he does with the line is take the second half and apply it to his own subject, which is the only use he makes of it: I tell you the incredible story of Jesus Christ, the pattern which man must follow in order to escape eternal death, and say, Why not? So the quotation is a licence to propose something absurd, and the absurd thing proposed is the promise. It never appears without the argument that follows it, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost - how can we who were physically born by the grace of God, yet cannot make one hair on our head grow, dare to put a limit on God's power? And at 1375 the answer is given outright: did not God become me, that I may become God? 1770's Shaw is Pygmalion and is not this. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.