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Lives of the Necromancers de William Godwin

Lives of the Necromancers

Autor William Godwin
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The main purpose of this book is to exhibit a fair delineation of the credulity of the human mind. Such an exhibition cannot fail to be productive of the most salutary lessons. One view of the subject will teach us a useful pride in the abundance of our faculties. Without pride man is in reality of little value. It is pride that stimulates us to all our great undertakings. Without pride, and the secret persuasion of extraordinary talents, what man would take up the pen with a view to produce an important work, whether of imagination and poetry, or of profound science, or of acute and subtle reasoning and intellectual anatomy? It is pride in this sense that makes the great general and the consummate legislator, that animates us to tasks the most laborious, and causes us to shrink from no difficulty, and to be confounded and overwhelmed with no obstacle that can be interposed in our path.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781514793442
ISBN-10: 151479344X
Pagini: 92
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

Notă biografică

William Godwin (1756 - 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, an attack on political institutions and Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, which attacks aristocratic privilege, but also is the first mystery novel. Based on the success of both, Godwin featured prominently in the radical circles of London in the 1790s. He wrote prolifically in the genres of novels, history and demography throughout his lifetime. In the conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth. Their daughter, later known as Mary Shelley, would go on to write Frankenstein and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. With his second wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, Godwin set up The Juvenile Library, allowing the family to write their own works for children (sometimes using noms de plume) and translate and publish many other books, some of enduring significance. Godwin has had considerable influence on British literature and literary culture.

Cuprins

Preface; Introduction; 1. Ambitious nature of man; 2. Examples of necromancy and witchcraft from the Bible; 3. Greece; 4. Rome; 5. Revolution produced in the history of necromancy and witchcraft upon the establishment of Christianity; 6. History of necromancy in the East; 7. Dark Ages of Europe; 8. Communication of Europe and the Saracens; 9. Revival of Letters; 10. Sanguinary proceedings against witchcraft; Conclusion.

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A leading British intellectual's examination, published in 1834, of influential historical figures who were associated with supernatural practices.