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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a sad genius who tried to live a happy life. Fascinated with history, language and philosophy, wildly happy in the company of children, he became a serious student of religion as he sought to better our condition in this world. He mastered Latin and Greek, pondered the great philosophers, and, suddenly he was re-born - he became an amalgam of Lucretius, Pliny, Hume, Locke, d'Holbach, Bacon, Voltaire, Spinoza, Franklin, Paine, and a host of other giants whose thoughts were melded into his flashing mind. Soon he was ready to take on the powers of his day. Shelley would use the press to publish his vision of humanity and how "power and priest-craft" had duped us.
The Church had been getting ready for freethinkers like Shelley ever since Constantine encased the clergy with political power in the Fourth Century. In 1444 Caxton published the first book ever printed in England. Thirty years later, the Bishop of London convoked the prelates and......


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