ABSTRACT
Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793); British Critic, I (July 1793), 307-318. The British Critic, hostile as it is to Godwin’s thought, gives the devil his due – perhaps enough to lead some curious reader to pay the high price for the two volumes (see p. 309). The author of Systeme de la Nature (pp. 310, 317) was Baron d’Holbach, writing under the pseudonym of Mirabaud. The references to Andrew Aguecheek (p. 308) and “So much for Buckingham” (p. 315) point to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard III respectively; Chrononholonthologos (p. 316) was the title character in a burlesque (1734) by Henry Carey.
