POSTSCRIPT, 1942

Since this book was written two indispensable aids to the study of Godwin and his Circle have been published. (1) An adequate modern life of Godwin is now available: The Life of William Godwin by Ford K. Brown (J. M. Dent & Sons). The work could hardly have been better done. (2) Mr. Elbridge Colby has given us in two volumes a modern edition of The Life of Thomas Holcroft (Constable & Co.) by himself with Hazlitt's continuation. Mr. Colby's scholarly notes and introduction add greatly to its value.

A modern edition of Godwin's Political Justice (Knopf, Political Science Classics) is now available, but cannot be recommended. The editor has abbreviated it by capricious omissions.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers by Carl L. Becker (Oxford University Press, also Yale) is a most readable study of the political thought of the period. See also Professor H. J. Laski's The Rise of European Liberalism (Allen & Unwin) and Voltaire by H. N. Brailsford in this series.

INDEX

Age of Reason, [75]
Arnold, Matthew, [184], [220]
Arnot, [174]
Baldwin, Edward, [172]
Barbauld, Mrs., [192]
Blake, Wm., [35], [66]
Bright, John, [115]
Burke, [15-26], [63]
Burney, Fanny, [18]
Caleb Williams, [143]
Calvinism, [79]
Chesterfield, Lord, [195]
Clairmont, Mrs. (afterwards Godwin), [169-70]
Clairmont, Jane, [169]
Coleridge, S. T., [51-55], [86], [156], [173]
Condorcet, [22], [23], [27], [92], [109], [110], [197]
Convention, English, [44]
—— Scottish, [41-43]
Cooper, Thomas, [83], [84]
Corresponding Society (see [London])
Dundas, [40], [44]
Enquirer, The, [145]
Essays (on Religion) by Wm. Godwin, [180]
Fénelon, [130]
Fleetwood, [176]
Gatton, Borough of, [25]
Gerrald, Joseph, [43], [88], [89]
Gillray, [155]
Godwin, William: as historian [22];
letter on trial of twelve Reformers, [46];
experience during Revolution, [49-51];
influence on Coleridge and Southey, [51-55];
relation to Paine, [64], [65], [71];
relation to Holcroft, [84-88];
early life, [78];
Political Justice, [89-141];
Marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft, [149];
Caleb Williams, [143];
controversies, [155];
estimate of his work, [163];
second marriage and later life, [163];
later works, [172];
relations with Shelley, [174];
death, [178];
religious views, [179];
intellectual influence on Shelley, [216] seq.
Godwin, William (junior), [170]
Godwin, Mrs. (see [Wollstonecraft] and [Clairmont])
Hardy, Thomas, [33], [37], [39], [41], [44]
Hazlitt, [9], [78], [152], [159], [168], [173]
Helvétius, [31], [39], [96], [99], [100], [102], [105], [120], [166], [171], [179], [187]
Hervé, [119]
Holbach, Baron d', [31], [196]
Holcroft, Thomas, quoted, [31];
early life of, [35], [36];
trial of, [44], [45], [48];
association with Paine, [65];
Influence on Godwin, [84-88]
Imlay, Fanny, [148], [169]
Imlay, Gilbert, [148]
Jones, Sir Wm., [37]
Kames, Lord, [193]
Kant, [11]
Lafayette, [62], [64]
Lamb, Charles, [173]
Leibnitz, [11], [95]
London Corresponding Society, [33-48], [66]
Lovell, R., [53]
Lytton, Bulwer, [174]
Mably, [87]

Mackintosh, Sir James, [16], [157]
Malthus, [29], [158]
Margarot, [42]
Marius, [128], [220]
Milton, [192], [212]
Montesquieu, [31], [90], [97]
Muir, [42]
Napoleon, [154]
Paine, Thomas, [16], [34], [39], [56];
biographical sketch, [57-68];
political views [69-75];
religious views, [75-77]
Palmer, [42]
Pantisocracy, [51-55]
Parr, Rev. Dr., [157]
Patrickson, [174]
Pitt, [40], [44], [66], [91]
Plato, Platonism, [102], [104], [126], [131], [197], [218], [234], [243]
Plutarch, [182]
Political Justice, [89-141]
Price, Rev. Dr., [10-15], [248]
Priestley, [11], [39], [81], [171]
Rights of Man, Paine's, [63], [69]
Rights of Woman—a Vindication of the, [148] seq.
Ritson, [35], [170]
Roosevelt, Theodore, [75]
Rousseau, [21], [101], [191], [194]
Sandemanians, [79]
Sepulchres, Godwin's Essay on, [22]
Shelley, [9], [104], [168];
personal relations with Godwin, [174];
intellectual outlook, [212];
debt to Godwin, [216];
his mythology, [225];
his view of human perfectibility, [230]
Shelley, Mary, née Godwin, [144], [153], [169], [176], [180]
Sheridan, [82]
Sinclair, [42]
Skirving, [42]
Socrates, Socratic (see [Plato])
Southey, [51-55], [151]
St. Leon, [160], [172]
Stanhope, Earl, [12]
Swift, [131], [193]
Tolstoy, [120], [138]
Tooke, Horne, [34], [43], [44], [46]
Turgot, [28]
Vindication of the Rights of Women (see [Rights])
Voltaire, [95], [221]
Wedgwood, [170]
Weissmann, [98]
Wells, H. G., [221]
Westbrook, Harriet, [175]
Windham, [48]
Wollstonecraft, Mary, [16];
early life, [147];
marriage and death, [149-154];
her personality, [202];
her originality, [199];
summary of "Rights," [204];
relation to French Revolution, [186-199];
reflection in Shelley, [238]
Wordsworth, [8], [51], [157]

Transcriber's Note: