... his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he was expelled because of his pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism, suggesting that the existence of God remained unproven by physical evidence or reason. At school, Shelley became interested in the revolutionary political and philosophical ideas of Thomas Paine and William Godwin, radical political writers ... inquiry cleared the authorities, but public indignation earned the bloody outrage its ironic name, a bitter pun on Waterloo. As a result of this tragic event, Shelley who...

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