Thoughts on Man
Thoughts on Man
His Nature, Productions and Discoveries
Interspersed with Some Particulars
Respecting the Author
by
William Godwin
Oh, the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion, than to start a hare!
SHAKESPEARE
LONDON: EFFINGHAM WILSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 1831.
PREFACE
In the ensuing volume I have attempted to give a defined and permanent form to a variety of thoughts, which have occurred to my mind in the course of thirty-four years, it being so long since I publish ...