Fabian Society : founded in 1883-84 in London, having as its goal the establishment of a democratic socialist state in Great Britain. Its name derives from Fabius Cunctator, the Roman general whose patient & elusive tactics in avoiding pitched battles secured his ultimate victory over stronger forces. Fabians at first attempted to permeate the Liberal & Conservative parties with Socialist ideas, but later helped to organize the separate Labour Representative Committee, which became the Labour Party in 1906 & has since been affiliated with the Labour Party.
... Sri Aurobindo's political views to his connection with the Fabian Society. But it is definite that Sri Aurobindo had no connection with the Fabian Society and that it played no part whatever in the formation of his political views, which he had arrived at independently. Not that he did not know about the existence of the Fabian Society or about the Irish movement, but he did not owe his inspiration ...
... “The general impression he creates is that I must have been a very serious prig, all along very pious and serious. I was nothing of the kind." "He also states I must have been attracted by the Fabian – Society started by Bernard Shaw and others. I was not, and I had no leaning to the labour party which in fact was not yet born." Chapter III “His treatment of my life in England is more conjectural... He is trying to give the picture of what a budding Yogi should be like. I was rather busy with myself and took interest in many things, whereas he tries to make out that I was interested in the Fabian Society and was very moral."' Chapter IV "There are inaccuracies such as his statement that I was introduced to the Gaekwad by Henry Cotton. It was not Henry Cotton but his brother, James Cotton ...
... of the Middle Ages; my knowledge of it was of a general character Page 232 and I never underwent its influence." Sri Aurobindo "never once" attended the weekly meetings of the Fabian Society. Nor was he ever a Freemason. "My eldest brother was; from him I gathered that it was nothing. But Freemasonry had something when it was started." It is strange that as soon as he reached ...
... poem on Parnell shows that Parnell influenced him.] It only shows that I took a keen interest in Parnell and nothing more. While in London he used to attend the weekly meetings of the Fabian Society. Never once! [Aurobindo formed a secret society while in England.] This is not correct. The Indian students in London did once meet to form a secret society called romantically ...
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