ABSTRACT
There is power, and stirring thought in Fleetwood, Mandwille, and Cloudesley; but they are not what Lord Byron called for. The promised Seven Sleepers, which was to be the conclusion of a new series of St. Leon, has never come. Godwin started in opposition to the received views of the world on all the most important affairs in which that world is concerned; and it is perfectly unnecessary to add, that the world beat in the end, as indeed in his case it deserved to beat. The principles of his “Political justice,” derived as it was pretended from the Bible, would, if they could have been acted upon, have subverted all the honourable relations of society, and destroyed all the ennobling or redeeming feelings of the heart. Godwin has now taken his place in the world of authors; and Caleb Williams and St. Leon are the only books of his which will be remembered.
