"If considerations of inferior note be apt to mislead the mind, what shall we think of this most intoxicating draught, of a condition superior to restraint, stripped of all those accidents and vicissitudes from which the morality of human beings has flowed, with no salutary check, with no intellectual warfare where mind meets mind on equal terms, but perpetually surrounded with sycophants, servants and dependents?"
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
2 entries in ESTC (both 1793).<br>
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See <u>An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. by William Godwin.</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?type=search&tabID=T001&queryId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28BN%2CNone%2C7%29T094275%24&sort=Author&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&version=1.0&prodId=ECCO">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;