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Godwin, William. Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (1793). Rpt. at least five times, including F. E. L. Priestly, ed. 3 vols. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1946.[http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/godwin/PJfrontpiece.html] 

WG, father of Mary Shelley, "discusses 'The Mechanism of the Human Mind'" in this work, describing 'the workings of the mind as 'a system of mechanism' in which a specific antecedent determines every consequent thought (ECPJ 2: 398-420). WG here is in the tradition of the "associationism" psychology of John Locke, ''Essay Concerning Human Understanding'' (1700), and Locke's popularizer David Harley: ''Observations of Man'' (1749). Discussed in Jonathan C. Glance's "'Beyond the Usual Bounds of Reverie?'[:] Another Look at the Dreams in ''Frankenstein''." ''JFA'' 7.4 (#28, Special Issue: Dream and Narrative Space [1996]): here, 33-34—source for this citation, and quoted.