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Date: 1793
"The offspring of mind is daily sacrificed by hecatombs to the genius of monarchy."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
The author can't understand an afterlife "where the mind, doomed to everlasting inactivity, shall be wholly a prey to the upbraidings of remorse and the sarcasms of devils, is so foreign to the system of things with which I am acquainted"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Purify your mind from the gross ideas of sense, and elevate it to the single contemplation of that abstract individual of which particular men are so many detached members, valuable only for the place they fill"
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