...What are numbers knit By force or custom? Man who man would be, Must rule the empire of himself; in it Must be supreme, establishing his throne On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Consisting of Miscellaneous Selections from His Poetical Works, the Entire Poems of Adonais and Alastor, and a Revised Edition of Queen Mab ... With a Biographical Preface. Second Edition”, p.32
