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Lack of sympathetic home training--Eton--disappointment in love--Oxford, conditions there bad--meets cynic Hogg--both publish _The Necessity of Atheism_, and are expelled--marries Harriet Westbrook--begins correspondence with Godwin--visits Dublin to aid Catholic Emancipation--Conditions of people of England--Caleb Williams--Queen Mab.