Percy Bysshe Shelley:

I would rather be damned with Plato and Lord Bacon, than go to heaven with Paley and Malthus.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley Modern

Romantic poet

From a letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, expressing his intellectual allegiances and disdain for certain contemporary thinkers.

1811

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