Vera suggested posting some statements reflecting our purpose. Here are two. If men resemble each other in more numerous and essential particulars than those in which they differ, if the best purposes that can be accomplished respecting them be to make them free, virtuous and wise, there must be one best method of social existence deducible from the principles of their nature. If truth be one, there must be one code of truths on the subject of our reciprocal duties.
Discussion is the path that leads to discovery and demonstration.
Among such things that our world would otherwise certainly lack, however, is the novel, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. This we know because the name of the man, who later fathered Mary Shelley, was among the hundreds that appeared on warrants that had been prepared and signed before the first of the October trials began. Although there were numerous victims of governmental suppression in the years that followed, Dr. Wm. Lawrence and Thomas Paine among them, significant progress had been made that could be built upon. Here is a link to our newest addition, a chronology of events surrounding the life of Mary Shelley and another, a link to our Morning Chronicle advertisement.