Author

John Mason Good(1764–1827)

John Mason Good is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1827). One work is named, all in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Notebooks
Documented: 1827

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“It has been very generally said and believed … that the great and mighty cause of this beautiful and harmonious formation of worlds and systems of worlds, in the opinion of Epicurus, was Chance or Fortune … "Whom" says Epicurus in a letter to his disciple Menoeceus … / Book of Nature p. 52d. / Vol 1st.”

The Book of Nature · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1827

When Fuller engaged with John Mason Good

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Good in Fuller’s reading world

The Book of Nature1827

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1827—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 135–136

excerpted · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“It has been very generally said and believed … that the great and mighty cause of this beautiful and harmonious formation of worlds and systems of worlds, in the opinion of Epicurus, was Chance or Fortune … "Whom" says Epicurus in a letter to his disciple Menoeceus … / Book of Nature p.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Book of Nature p. 52d.