perfectionized

Updated: August 2, 2026

Shelley believed that mankind had only to will that there should be no evil, and there would be none. That man could be so perfectionized as to be able to expel evil from his own nature, and from the greater part of the creation, was the cardinal point of his system.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley