Is There a Conflict of Interest?

When his disciple, percy shelley, the married disciple with a young child, runs off with a 16 year old daughter, his commitment to free love sort of slightly stoppeay. His therehe complete ly ostracises and won't speak to them until the day of their wedding. I mean, extraordinary. The intellectual case is that by then, for one reason or another, godwin had modified position. He no longer thought that tradition, perseille is empty. And he was more interested in persuasion. That's his intellectual case. But also the personal case is that he himself had done some living by then. He had made the compromise and married mary woolstonecraft