Later on, as a political hack in London, Wordsworth did ally himself with English Jacobins such as Wollstonecraft's future husband WilliamGodwin, but his approach to politics was hardly dictated by dispassionate Godwinian rationalism.
Such experiments were common topics of conversation in the Godwin household, where the philosopher WilliamGodwin played host to scientific wizards such as Humphry Davy, who had used the voltaic pile to develop electrolysis and whose sensationally popular lectures proclaimed that science was poised to unleash powers previously unimagined, and perhaps even liberate the spark of life itself.