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- From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
- Subject: Shelley's "The Necessity of Atheism"
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 03:05:32 GMT
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- "Shelley was familiar with tyranny and intolerance. In 1811, while yet
- an undergraduate, he'd had the 'The Necessity of Atheism' published at
- Worthing in Sussex. It appeared for sale in the bookshop window of
- Munday and Slater's for just twenty minutes. The brevity of the sale
- was due, unfortunately, not to an exhaustion of the edition, but the
- appearance upon the scene of a clerical wowser yclept John Walker. The
- good Rev., strolling by the bookstore, saw the essay upon display, and
- exhibiting correct Christian indignation, upbraided the two miserable
- sinners. The pamphlets were removed and burned in true Hitlerian
- fashion - except for one that Slater kept, and which is the surviving
- copy."
-
- -- Joseph Sapere
-
- Source: pages 3-4 of introductory note to
-
- Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
- Title: The necessity of atheism (selected aphorisms) with an
- introductory note by Joseph Sapere. Yonkers, N. Y., Alicat
- Book Shop, 1946.
- Description: 24 p. 21 cm.
-
- Series: The "Outcast" chapbooks, no. 4.
-
- Notes: At head of title: Shelley.
- On cover: Selections from The necessity of atheism (1811) A
- letter to Lord Ellenborough (1812) A refutation of deism
- (1814) and Essay on Christianity (1815)
-
- Subjects: Atheism.
-
-