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The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources

BY DANIEL J. MACDONALD, PH. D.

A DISSERTATION

_Submitted to the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic
University of America in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy_

WASHINGTON, D. C.
JUNE, 1912

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION--NATURE OF RADICALISM 5

CHAPTER I--EARLY INFLUENCES 12

Lack of sympathetic home training--Eton--disappointment in
love--Oxford, conditions there bad--meets cynic Hogg--both
publish _The Necessity of Atheism_, and are expelled--marries
Harriet Westbrook--begins correspondence with Godwin--visits
Dublin to aid Catholic Emancipation--Conditions of people of
England--Caleb Williams--Queen Mab.

CHAPTER II--VIEWS ON MARRIAGE AND LOVE 36

Parting from Harriet--views on marriage--influence of Godwin,
of Lawrence's _The Empire of the Naires_--abuses of marriage
in different countries--the _Naires_ a possible source of
_Rosalind and Helen_--flight with Mary Godwin--Brown's
_Wieland_--_The Revolt of Islam_--The _Missionary_ an
important source of the Revolt--Platonism and his view of
love--_Epipsychidion_--Mary Wollstonecraft's _Vindication of
The Rights of Women_--Louvet's _Memoirs_.

CHAPTER III--POLITICS 66

Godwin's _Political Justice_--every kind of obedience wrong--
views on kingcraft--on violence and punishment of death--reform
through education--principle of justice--laws--ownership of
property--luxuries--vegetarianism--Leigh Hunt--proposal for
putting Reform to a vote--_Prometheus Unbound_--masque of
Anarchy--philosophical view of Reform--the perfectibility of
man.

CHAPTER IV--RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY 87

His views on Christianity--not an atheist--agnostic--sources of
views on belief, Locke, Spinoza, Drummond--God not a creator--
Pantheism--God, Love, and Beauty identical--immortality of the
soul--idealism--necessity--freedom of the will--good and evil,
their origin--virtue equivalent to happiness--disbelief in the
doctrine of hell.

CHAPTER V--RADICALISM IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY 108

Wordsworth--the Lyrical Ballads--The Prelude and Excursion--
Coleridge.

CHAPTER VI--CONCLUSION 125

Weakness of the Radical, of Shelley--Strength of the Radical,
of Shelley.

BIBLIOGRAPHY 139

BIOGRAPHY 143

THE RADICALISM OF SHELLEY AND ITS SOURCES[1]

BY DANIEL J. MCDONALD, PH.D.