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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin
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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 published a volume, entitled, the Enquirer,--thoughts,
which, if they have presented themselves to other men, have, at
least so far as I am aware, never been given to the public
through the medium of the press. During a part of this period I
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