Published in 1831, thirty-four years after The Enquirer, this collection gathers essays from Godwin’s old age. He writes on body and mind, the distribution of talents among people, the waste he calls intellectual abortion, the durability of human achievements, the rebelliousness of man, love and hatred, praise and blame, and scatters through them glimpses of his own life.
A reflective late work by the radical philosopher and father of Mary Shelley, for readers of Romantic-era thought. Download the free EPUB.