Complex sentence: In his lifetime Shaw professed many beliefs, often contradictory, this inconsistency partly an intentional provocation--the Spanish scholar-statesman Salvador de Madariaga describes Shaw as "a pole of negative electricity set in a people of positive electricity".
Split into simpler sentences: In his lifetime Shaw professed many beliefs, often contradictory. This inconsistency was partly an intentional provocation--the Spanish scholar-statesman Salvador de Madariaga describes Shaw as "a pole of negative electricity set in a people of positive electricity".