by Jonathan Smith
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In 1794 Thomas Holcroft, actor, novelist, playwright, radical philosopher and lifelong believer in human perfectability, was indicted on a charge of high treason and held for eight weeks at Newgate Prison. He prepared his own defence. But he also faced a deeper inner trial. He had tried to bring up his son William to be 'the perfect man' and in this he had failed.
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