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Mr Godwin's conjecture concerning the future extinction of the passion between the sexes Little apparent grounds for such a conjecture Passion of love not inconsistent either with reason or virtue. We have supported Mr Godwin's system of society once completely established. But it is supposing an impossibility.
He had imbibed Godwin's doctrine, but when acceptance of Godwin's conclusions involved a conflict with his strongest affections the sacrifice not only of his patriotism but of the sympathies which bound him to his fellows he revolted. Godwin represents the extreme of 'individualism, the absolute dissolution of all social and political bonds.
But let us imagine for a moment Mr Godwin's beautiful system of equality realized in its utmost purity, and see how soon this difficulty might be expected to press under so perfect a form of society. A theory that will not admit of application cannot possibly be just. Let us suppose all the causes of misery and vice in this island removed. War and contention cease.
Godwin's last grief was the loss of his son. William in 1832; he had been settled in a literary career and left a widow. One of Mary's first acts of generosity later on was to settle a pension on her. Having traced Mary's life, as far as space will allow, to the death of her father, we must now retrace our steps to show the work she did, which gives the raison-d'etre for this biography.
Peak returned his greeting, and, in the same moment, gazed at the last of the party. Mrs. Moorhouse was speaking. 'Mr. Peak Miss Moxey. A compression of the lips was the only sign of disturbance that anyone could have perceived on Godwin's countenance. Already he had strung himself against his wonted agitation, and the added trial did not sensibly enhance what he suffered.
"Banish from thy breast, O King and son, thoughts unmeet, and of doubtful charity! All that man could know of Godwin's innocence or guilt the suspicion of the vulgar the acquittal of his peers was known to thee before thou didst seek his aid for thy throne, and didst take his child for thy wife.
Godwin's resentment would have abated and he willing to listen to good argument in the steward's favour; how then we should have made Simon more eager than ever to serve us in order to condone his late offence, and how by abusing our opportunities we had changed this useful servant to a dangerous enemy whose sole endeavour must be to undo us and recover his former position, etc.... "Why, what have we to fear of this miserable old man?" says I. "Unless he fetch Mrs.
Hazlitt, writing in 1814, says that Godwin's reputation had "sunk below the horizon," but Shelley never ceased to believe in his theory, though he came to see that the regeneration of man would be a much slower process than he had at first imagined.
Morton, the wife of one of Christian's friends, a good-natured but silly person bent on making known that she followed the 'higher law'. Godwin's disappearance sank her in profound melancholy. Through the black weeks of January and February she scarcely left the house, and on the plea of illness refused to see any one but her brother.
Not ours is the present, and the future escapes from our dreams; but the past is ours ever, and all eternity cannot revoke a single joy that the moment hath known." Then seating herself in Godwin's large chair, she leant over her seid- staff, and was silent, as if absorbed in her thoughts. "Githa," she said at last, "where is thy lord? I came to touch his hands and to look on his brow."
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