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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then. ↗
On the top of Cadair Idris, I felt how happy a man might be with a little money and a sane intellect, and reflected with astonishment and pity on the madness of the multitude. ↗
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. ↗
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He opposed the employment of steamers on the Red Sea probably in deference to the supposed interests of the company. Sir Edward Strachey wrote of him
"A kind-hearted genial friendly man who loved to share his enjoyment of life with all around him and self-indulgent without being selfish. The official duties of the India House delayed the completion and publication of Maid Marian begun in 1818 until 1822 and as a result of the delay it was taken for an imitation of Ivanhoe although its composition had in fact preceded Scott's novel.
He was a close friend of Percy BysThomas Love Peacock Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels each with the same basic setting — characters at a table discussing and criticising the philosophical opinions of the day. Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist poet and official of the East India Company.
