Survey Of History Shelley: In 1835 he made a geological survey of the State of New Jersey, and was appointed geologist in charge of the survey of Pennsylvania in 1836. The survey was interrupted in 1841-51 by lack of appropriations, and Rogers was engaged as an expert for various coal companies, until he resumed the survey which was then concluded in 1854. The final report of the survey was entrusted to him, and he completed the work in Edinburgh.
In his survey of history Shelley attributes most of the ills which mankind has suffered to false religion, monarchical institutions, marriage, customs, conventions and the eating of meat. In this sanguine vision of the future he represents a world regenerated through the emancipation of reason and passion, which we are to believe will lead to the abolition of priests, kings, prisons and marriage vows and to the adoption of a vegetable diet. There is little or no common sense in the composition but an abundance of intense young heady ardor for reforming society by that short method dear to the Godwinian idealist-letting everyone do as he pleases, a method which in practice requires resort to the guillotine.
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin,
English writer: b. London, Aug. 30, 1797; d. there, Feb. 21, 1851. She was the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1814 she eloped with the poet Shelley to Switzerland, and after the death of his wife, Harriet Westbrooke, was married to him. While traveling with him she composed her famous romance of Frankenstein (1818), which excited an immense sensation. After her husband's death she devoted herself much to literary work, producing Val-perga (1823); The Last Man (1826); Lodore (1835) ; Falkner (1837) ; and other works of fiction ; biographies for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia; Journal of a Six Weeks' Tour, with Shelley (1814); Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) ; and
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