A Fatal Likeness
“Would that I had never accepted it; would that I had kept to my determination to forswear all dealings again with aught of that name—a name my hand trembles to write, and that I struggle even now to hear, far less utter. But my pledge to one, and the duty I believed I owed to another, induced me, against my reason, against my judgment, against myself, to concede. I believed that I might by a slight endurance on my part help secure to them a lasting happiness. I could not know then it would be so fatal a cure.
Remarkable as it may appear, given all that has gone before, I had not met William Godwin until he requested me to call at his house in the third week of September last. But if I knew the name, I knew, likewise, the reputation and the work, as any man must who reads widely, and has an active mind, though I state at once that I disagree profoundly with the argument of Political Justice, and condemn utterly the influence it has had, having seen with my own eyes the pernicious c...onsequences.MoreLess
Remarkable as it may appear, given all that has gone before, I had not met William Godwin until he requested me to call at his house in the third week of September last. But if I knew the name, I knew, likewise, the reputation and the work, as any man must who reads widely, and has an active mind, though I state at once that I disagree profoundly with the argument of Political Justice, and condemn utterly the influence it has had, having seen with my own eyes the pernicious c...onsequences.MoreLess
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