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The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Community, Ruins, Mankind
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love, Powerful, Community
Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men, Community, Chance
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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