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Shelley 26 January 1812 to Miss Hitchener,
'An Address to the Irish People . . . is intended . . also as a preliminary to other pamphlets to . . induce Quakerish and Socinian principles of politics, without objecting to the Christian religion.'
SHELLEY'S PROSE, ed. David Lee Clark,
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press 1954, p. 40.
From AN ADDRESS TO THE IRISH PEOPLE, 1812 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
We will now examine the Protestant religion. Its origin is called the Reformation. It was undertaken by some bigoted men who showed how little they understood the spirit of reform by burning each other. You will observe that these man burned each other—indeed they universally betrayed a taste for destroying—and vied with the chiefs of the
Roman Catholic religion in not only hasting their enemies but those men who least of all were their enemies, or anybody's enemies. Now do the Protestants or do they not hold the same tenets as they did when Calvin burned Servetus ? They swear that they do. We can have no better proof. Then, with what face can the Protestants object to Catholic Emancipation on the plea that Catholics once were barbarous, when their own establishment is liable to the very same objections, on the very same grounds ? I think this is a specimen of bareface intoleration which I had hoped would not have disgraced this age ; this age, which is called the age of reason, of thought diffused, of virtue acknowledged, and its principles fixed. Oh ! that it might be so. I have mentioned the Catholic and Protestant religions more to show that any objection to the toleration of the one forcibly applies to the non-permission of the other, or rather to show that there is no reason why both might not be toleration ; why every religion, every form of thinking might not be tolerated. But why do I speak of toleration ? This word seems to mean that there is some merit in the person who tolerates ; he has this merit, if it be one, of refraining to do an evil act, but he will share the merit with every other peaceable person who pursues his own business and does not hinder another of his rights. It is not a merit to tolerate, but it is a crime to be intolerant ; it is not a merit in me that I sat quietly at home without murdering any one, but it is a crime if I do so. (Etc.)
SHELLEY'S PROSE, ed. David Lee Clark,
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press 1954, pp. 43-44.
From The Nature of Literature, 1942 by Thomas Clark Pollock
"Poets, . . . " Shelley wrote in "A Defence of Poetry" (1821), "are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and paintings : they are the institutors of laws and the founders of civil society. . . . "
THE NATURE OF LITERATURE
Its Relation to Science, Language and Human Experience
Princeton University Press 1942, p. 7.
Bibliographic notes
Author Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
Title Margaret Fuller, critic : writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844-1846 / edited by Judith Mattson Bean and Joel Myerson.
Publisher New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
Description xliii, 491 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer laser opitcal disc (4 3/4 in.)
ISBN 0231111320 (hbk : alk. paper)
Language English
Note Searchable CD-ROM contains Fuller's complete writings for the New-York Tribune.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Emerson's Essays -- Thanksgiving -- New Year's Day -- Miss Barrett's Poems -- The Liberty Bell for 1845 -- Review of Charles Lanman, Letters from a Landscape Painter -- Review of James Russell Lowell, Conversations on Some of the Old Poets -- Edgar A. Poe -- Review of Lydia H. Sigourney, Scenes in My Native Land -- French Novelists of the Day: Balzac ... George Sand ... Eugene Sue -- Review of Richard Hildreth, The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore -- Review of The Child's Friend, ed. Eliza L. Follen -- Review of Anton Schindler, The Life of Beethoven -- Review of Henry R. Schoolcraft, Oneota, or The Red Race of America -- Mr. Hudson's Lecture on Hamlet -- Review of Theodore Parker, The Excellence of Goodness -- Our City Charities, Visit To Bellevue Alms House, to the Farm School, the Asylum for the Insane, and Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island -- Writers Little Known Among Us. Milnes ... Landor ... Julius Hare -- Frederick Von Raumer upon the Slavery Question -- Ertheiler's Phrase-Book.
>br? Mrs. Child's Letters -- Review of Charles Anthon, A System of Latin Versification -- Review of Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Saul, A Mystery -- American Facts -- Prevalent Idea that Politeness is too great a Luxury to be given to the Poor -- Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts -- Story Books for the Hot Weather -- United States Exploring Expedition -- Review of Charles Sealsfield, Tokeah; or the White Rose -- The Irish Character -- Fourth of July -- Review of Anna Cora Mowatt, Evelyn -- Review of Edgar Allan Poe, Tales -- The Irish Character -- Thomas Hood -- Review of Caroline Norton, The Child of the Islands, and John Critchley Prince, Hours with the Muses -- First of August, 8145 -- Thomas Hood -- Prince's Poems -- The Great Britain -- Review of Sylvester Judd, Margaret -- Review of Philip James Bailey, Festus -- The Tailor -- Jenny Lind ... The Consuelo of George Sand -- The Wrongs of American Women. The Duty of American Women -- Ole Bull.
Review of The Prose Works of John Milton -- Italy [Alfieri] -- The Celestial Empire -- Italy [Dante] -- Review of Caroline M. Kirkland, Western Clearings -- Review of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems -- Review of Frederick Von Raumer, America and the American People -- Review of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poems -- Study of the German Language -- Peale's Court of Death -- Books of Travel -- Review of Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Steeches -- Review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 1st January, 1846 -- Review of Schoolcraft Jones, Ellen; or Forgive and Forget -- Cassius M. Clay -- Methodism at the Fountain -- Publishers and Authors. Dolores by Harro Harring -- The Rich Man - An Ideal Sketch -- Review of Leigh Hunt, Italian Poets -- Consecration of Grace Church -- The Poor Man - An Ideal Sketch -- Instruction in the French Language -- What Fits a Man to be a Voter? Is it to be White Within, or White Without? -- Robert Browning's Poems.
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