Godwin, Women, and "The Collision of Mind with Mind"
@article{Clemit2004GodwinWA, title={Godwin, Women, and "The Collision of Mind with Mind"}, author={Pamela Clemit}, journal={The Wordsworth Circle}, year={2004}, volume={35}, pages={72 - 76} }
William Godwin held to a lifelong ideal of unreserved social communication. "If there be such a thing as truth," he declared in An Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793), "it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind" (3:15). As well as according a central role to private conversation in his own development, he argued that colloquial discussion, "whether written or oral" (3: 14), was the chief means by which social and political improvement could be achieved. As he…
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