"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.39
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