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AN
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THE two principal objects of human power are government and education. They have accordingly engrossed a very large share in the disquisitions of the speculative in all ages. The subject of the former indeed is man, already endowed with his greatest force of body, and arrived at the exercise of his intellectual powers: the subject of the latter is ... (From: Anarchy Archives.) CURSORY STRICTURES
ON THE
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TO THE
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OCTOBER 2 , 1794.
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A Special Commission was opened on the second day of October, for the trial of certain persons apprehended upon suspicion of High Treason, the greater part of whom were taken into custody in the month of May 1794. Upon this occasion a charge was delivered to the Grand Jury, by Sir James Eyre, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
It is one... (From: Anarchy Archives.) p>--NEQUE SEMPER ARCUM
TENDIT APOLLO. HOR.
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M,DCC,LXXXIV.
CONTENTS
PART the FIRST.
CHAPTER I.
Containing introductory Matter.
CHAPTER II.
A Ball
CHAPTER III.
A Ghost.
CHAPTER IV.
A love Scene.
CHAPTER V.
A Man of Humor.
CHAPTER VI.
Containing some Specimens of Heroism.
CHAPTER VII.
Containing that with which the Reader will be acquainted when he has
read it.
CHAPTER VIII.
Two Persons of Fashion.
CHAPTER IX.
A tragical Resolution.
CONTENTS.
PART the SECOND.
CHAPTER I.
In which th (From: Gutenberg.org.) A
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THE present reign will certainly appear to our posterity full of the noblest materials for history. Many circumstances seem to have pointed it out as a very critical period. The general diffusion of science has, in some degree, enlightened the minds of all me (From: Anarchy Archives.) Part I.
Essay I. Of Awakening the Mind
The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of happiness.
Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species would be happy.
Man is a social being. In society the interests of individuals are interwisted with each other, and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other. The first object should be to train a man to be happy; the second to train him to be useful, that is, to be virtuous.
There is a further reason for this. Virtue is essential to individual happiness. There is no transport equal to that of the performance of virtue. All other happiness, which is not ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) BOOK VIII
OF PROPERTY
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
The subject of property is the key-stone that completes the fabric of
political justice. According as our ideas respecting it are crude or correct,
they will enlighten us as to the consequences of a simple form of society
without government, and remove the prejudices that attach us to complexity.
There is nothing that more powerfully tends to distort our judgment and
opinions than erroneous notions concerning the goods of fortune. Finally,
the period that must put an end to the system of coercion and punishment
is intimately connected with the circumstance of property's being placed
upon an equitable basis.
Various abuses ... (From: http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/.) BOOK V
OF LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE POWER
CHAP. XXIV.
OF THE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT
Political authority of a national assembly--
of juries. -- Consequence from the whole.
IT remains for us to consider what is the degree of authority necessary to be vested in such a modified species of national assembly as we have admitted into our system. Are they to issue their commands to the different members of the confederacy? Or is it sufficient that they should invite them to cooperate for the common advantage, and, by arguments and addresses, convince them of the reasonableness of the measures they propose? The former of these might at first be necessary. The latter would afterwards become sufficient.1 The
Amphictyonic council of... (From: Anarchy Archives.) FLEETWOOD;
or, THE
NEW MAN OF FEELING.
by WILLIAM GODWIN.
CHAPTER V
In such talk I and my friend spent the chief part of our journey to England. We reached Merionethshire, and found a desolated mansion, and a tenanted grave. In the one, and over the other, we united our ears. 'My friend! my father! most generous of men' were the epithets with which a thousand times we saluted the shade of the departed.
And here I beg leave to protest against the doctrine too commonly promulgated in the world, that we ought to call off our thoughts, as speedily as possible, from the recollection of our deceased friends, and not waste our spirits in lamentation for irremediable losses. The persons from whom I have oftenest heard this lesson,... (From: Anarchy Archives.) THE
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TO THE (From: Gutenberg.org.) Godwin, William (1783). The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. London: Printed for the author, and sold by G. Kearsley. Dublin: Potts, Wilson, Walker and Byrne. pp. i - xvii.
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MAJESTY'S MOST HONORABLE PRIVY COUNCIL (From: Anarchy Archives.) From: William Godwin (1784). Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
From the Ancient British.
BOOK THE SECOND
THUNDER STORM.--THE RAPE OF IMOGEN.--EDWIN ARRIVES AT THE GROTTO OF ELWY.--CHARACTER OF THE MAGICIAN.--THE END OF THE FIRST DAY.
THE song of Llewelyn was heard by the shepherds with reverence and mute attention. Their blameless hearts were lifted to the skies with the sentiment of gratitude; their honest bosoms overflowed with the fervor of devotion. They proved their sympathy with the feelings of the bard, not by licentious shouts and wild huzzahes, but by the composure of their spirits, the serenity of their countenances' and the deep and unutterable silence which universally prevailed. And now the hoary minstrel rose from the little emin... (From: Anarchy Archives.) I N S T R U C T I O N S
TO A
S T A T E S M A N.
HUMBLY INSCRIBED TO
T H E R I G H T H O N O U R A B L E
GEORGE EARL TEMPLE.
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TO
THE RIGHT HONORABLE
GEORGE EARL TEMPLE.
MY LORD,
THE following papers fell into my hands by one of those unaccountable accidents, so frequent in human life, but which in the relation appear almost incredible. I will not however trouble your lordship with the story. If they be worthy of the press, it is of no great consequence to the public how they found (From: Anarchy Archives.) Letter IX. The Count de St. Julian to Signor Hippolito Borelli, Messina
You, my dear Hippolito, were the only one of my fellow-collegians, to whom I communicated all the circumstances of that unfortunate situation which obliged me to take a final leave of the university. The death of a father, though not endeared by the highest reciprocations of mutual kindness, must always make some impressions upon a susceptible mind. The wound was scarcely healed that had been made by the loss of a mother, a fond mother, who by her assiduous attentions had supplied every want, and filled up every neglect, to which I might otherwise have been exposed.
When I quitted Palermo, I resolved before I determined upon any thing, to proceed to the residence of... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) LIVES OF THE NECROMANCERS:
OR
AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN SUCCESSIVE AGES, WHO HAVE
CLAIMED FOR THEMSELVES, OR TO WHOM HAS BEEN IMPUTED BY OTHERS,
THE
EXERCISE OF MAGICAL POWER.
BY WILLIAM GODWIN.
LONDON
Frederick J Mason, 444, West Strand
1834
PREFACE.
The main purpose of this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the
credulity of the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be
productive of the most salutary lessons.
One view of the subject will teach us a useful pride in the abundance
of our faculties. Without pride man is in reality of little value. It
is pride that stimulates us to all our great undertakings. Without
pride, and the secret persuasion of extraordinary talents... (From: Project Gutenberg.) CHAPTER III. 1783-1785.
Mary was now arrived at the twenty-fourth year of her age. Her project, five years before, had been personal independence; it was now usefulness. In the solitude of attendance on her sister's illness, and during the subsequent convalescence, she had had leisure to ruminate upon purposes of this sort. Her expanded mind led her to seek something more arduous than the mere removal of personal vexations; and the sensibility of her heart would not suffer her to rest in solitary gratifications. The derangement of her father's affairs daily became more and more glaring; and a small independent provision made for herself and her sisters, appears to have been sacrificed in the wreck. For ten years, from 1782 to 1792, she m... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) Note: Godwin wrote this piece, according to a note in
the manuscript, "while the Enquirer [1797] was in the press, under
the impression that the favor of the public might have demanded
another volume."
The study of history may well be ranked among those pursuits
which are most worthy to be chosen by a rational being.
The study of history divides itself into two principal
branches; the study of mankind in a mass, of the progress the
fluctuations, the interests and the vises of society; and the
study of the individual.
The history of a nation might be written in the first of these
senses, entirely in terms of abstraction, and without descending
so much as to name one of those individuals to which the nation is
co... (From: Anarchy Archives.) Godwin, William. Of Population. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster Row, 1820.
CHAPTER II.
ANIMADVERSIONS ON MR. MALTHUS'S AUTHORITIES.
HAVING thus therefore got together all the authorities that Mr. Malthus has produced, or is able to produce, in support of his fundamental positions, let us proceed to examine into their validity and amount.
The first is Dr. Franklin. What he says on the subject of fennel, is of a very vague nature I do not imagine that any one will ascribe to this bare assertion the force of demonstration if I had heard it for the first time in conversation, and without having previously reflected on the subject, I should have answered, "Very likely." No more. The proposition ... (From: Anarchy Archives.) William Godwin, The Enquirer. Reflections On Education, Manners, And Literature. In A Series Of Essays. London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797.
The Enquirer.
Part I.
Essay I.
Of Awakening the Mind
The true object of education, like that of every other moral process, is the generation of happiness.
Happiness to the individual in the first place. If individuals were universally happy, the species would be happy.
Man is a social being. In society the interests of individuals are interwisted with each other, and cannot be separated. Men should be taught to assist each other. The first object should be to train a man to be happy; the second to train him to be useful, that is, to be virtuous.
There is a further reas... (From: Anarchy Archives.) CHAPTER XXIX.
Nineteen years had now elapsed from the day that had witnessed my union with Marguerite de Damville. In all that time I had never been alone. Alone in a certain sense indeed I had stood at Paris in the period that had led to my exile, and at Soleure in that which immediately succeeded it. In each case I was solitary, and my solitude was unhappy. But my unhappiness was then in a certain sense spontaneous; my solitude was a luxury in which I felt myself impelled to indulge. He that has experienced both, will readily acknowledge the extreme difference between the misery we embrace and the misery from which we shrink with abhorrence and loathing. I relinquished in the former instances my dearest connections, my proper post and ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.) WILLIAM GODWIN
GODWIN'S OWN ACCOUNT
OF CALEB WILLIAMS
As written for insertion in the edition of FLEETWOOD when that novel was reprinted in Bentley's "Standard Novels' as No. XXII (1832)
London, November 20, 1832
CALEB WILLIAMS has always been regarded by the public with an unusual degree of favor. The proprietor of "THE STANDARD NOVELS" has therefore imagined, that even an account of the concoction and mode of writing the work would be viewed with some interest.
I had always felt in myself some vocation towards the composition of a narrative of fictitious adventure; and among the things of obscure note, which I have above referred to, were two or three pieces of this nature. It is not therefore extraordinary that some p... (From: Anarchy Archives.) This work is part of the International Institute for Social History collection and appears in Anarchy Archives with ISSH's permission.
Thoughts Occasioned By The Perusal Of Dr. Parr's Spital Sermon, Preached At Christ Church, April 15, 1800:
Being A Reply to the Attacks of Dr. Parr, Mr. Mackintosh, the Author of an Essay On Population, and Others.
by William Godwin
LONDON: Printed by Taylor and Wilks, Chancery-Lane; and sold by G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row. 1801.
I HAVE now continued for some years a silent, not an inattentive, spectator of the flood of ribaldry, invective and intolerance which has been poured out against me and my writings. The work which has principally afforded a topic for the exercise of th... (From: Anarchy Archives.) ESSAY XVIII
OF DIFFIDENCE
The following Essay will be to a considerable degree in the nature of confession, like the Confessions of St. Augustine or of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It may therefore at first sight appear of small intrinsic value, and scarcely worthy of a place in the present series. But, as I have had occasion more than once to remark, we are all of us framed in a great measure on the same model, and the analysis of the individual may often stand for the analysis of a species. While I describe myself therefore, I shall probably at the same time be describing no inconsiderable number of my fellow-beings.
It is true, that the duty of man under the head of Frankness, is of a very comprehensive nature. We ought all of us to tell to... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
