The rest of the subjects are still lodged within the cerebral cells of the author. The following are in preparation for precious print:
Maxim Gorky
Walt Whitman
Robert Ingersoll
Elisee Reclus
Thomas Paine
Ferdinand Lassalle
Karl Marx
Victor Hugo
Alexander Herzen
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Herbert Spencer
Henrik Ibsen
Thomas Huxley
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Darwin
Ernest Haeckel
Louise Michel
Emile Zola
August Comte
Baruch Spinoza
Ivan Turgenev
Harriet Martineau
Giordano Bruno
Grant Allen
Wendell Phillips
Henry George
Henry Thoreau
Mrs. Stanton
William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
BY VICTOR ROBINSON
Written in the Author's Eighteenth Year
William Godwin was the father of philosophic radicalism in England. His wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, was the pioneer of the woman suffrage movement. Yet the present generation of reformers knows little about these glorious Liberals. This booklet tells briefly of Godwin's early life, of his development from orthodoxy to rationalism, of his epoch-making "Political Justice," of his narrow escape from imprisonment on the charge of high treason, of his first meeting and dislike of Mary Wollstonecraft, of his later love and marriage with her, of her former marriage and attempt at suicide, of their views on the marriage relation, of the storm which Mary Wollstonecraft caused by writing "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," of her lamented death, of her talented daughter who eloped with Shelley, of Godwin's subsequent love affairs, of his philosophy, of his old age, etc.
Pierre Ramus: in "Die Freie Generation:"
Selten wohl, dass uns eine kleine Broschurenschrift in die Hände fiel, die mit ähnlicher Glut des edelsten Idealismus verfasst ist, wie jene unseres amerikanischen Genossen Victor Robinson.
Eugene V. Debs, in "Appeal to Reason:"
The story of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft is now in pamphlet form, fresh from the gifted pen of Victor Robinson. It is a story of two great souls charmingly told by another.
Elbert Hubbard, editor of "The Philistine:"
At the Roycroft Chapel, Victor gave us a most admirable address on Godwin—quite the best thing he ever did.
John Sherwin Crosby, author of "Government:" I shall prize your very graphic sketch because of its intrinsic worth.
William Lloyd Garrison, the son of the great Abolitionist:
I have read with pleasure your estimate of these brave thinkers. What surviving qualities have truth and courage!
Clinton P. Farrell, brother-in-law and publisher of Ingersoll: Many many thanks for this beautiful booklet—a gem. May you live long and continue in the making of good books.
Voltairine de Cleyre, the most radical woman in Philadelphia:
I am glad that some one has taken up the work I began some fifteen years ago,—that of compelling the deserved recognition due to Mary Wollstonecraft from the English-speaking radical world.
Champe S. Andrews, counsel of the Medical Society of New York:
I am indebted to you for the very delightful monograph on the lives of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. I value this book on account of its excellent literary and biographical value.
Henry J. Weeks, lover of our furred and feathered brothers:
As soon as I received your book, my wife read it to me from beginning to end, starting with loving interest and ending with sympathetic tears. Then I read it again myself. Then I called upon my friend Fred Heath, editor of "The Social Democratic Herald," and talked to him about my "William and Mary," and together we hied to the public library and made a search for all we could find about the lives of these interesting friends.
