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Politics of Author:
"Jacobin Sympathies"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Date: 1793
In a just society "understanding would convert into a real power, no longer an ignis fatuus, shining and expiring by turns, and leading us into sloughs of sophistry, false science and specious mistake"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Mind will frequently burst forth, but its appearance will be like the corruscations of the meteor, not like the mild illumination of the sun"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Their result will be thick darkness of the mind, timidity, servility, hypocrisy."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)