Excerpt from Standard Novels, Vol. 1: N° II; Caleb Williams
He continues: "I was ambitious to be a leader, and to be regarded by others with feelings of complacency." From these circumstances it is evident that Mr. Godwin was not one of those youths, who, strenuously active and eager in the pursuit of some peculiar knowledge of their own selection, rebel against authority, and are tortured by the regular application required to the common-place routine of education. Reason and a love of investigation were the characteristics of Godwin, even in boyhood, added to what he himself describes as "a sort of constitutional equanimity and imperturbableness of temper."
In the year 1773 Mr. Godwin was placed at a college for dissenters at Hoxton, for the purpose of being educated for the church. Dr. Kippis and Dr. Rees were two of the principal professors at this college; and the tenets in vogue there inclined to Unitarianism. Mr. Godwin had been bred a Calvinist, and was the farthest in the world from that temper of mind which is blown about by every new wind of opinion. Opposition made him more tenaciously cling to his own turn of thinking, and adhere to the persuasion in which he had been brought up. In the year 1778 he became minister to a congregation not far from the metropolis.
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