Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; with an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions, V. 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ... Galileo into a prison;--a spirit most unworthy of an educated man, who ought to have learnt that the mistakes of scientific men-have never injured Christianity, while every new truth discovered hy them has either added to its evidence, or prepared the mind for its reception ON INSTINCT IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNDERSTANDING. It is evident, that the definition of a genus or class is an adequate definition only of the lowest species of that genus: for each higher species is distinguished from the lower by some additional character, while the general definition includes only the characters common to all the species. Consequently it describes the lowest only. Now I distinguish a genus or kind of powers under dam videos stupidiores quam ut placari queant. Adhuc non mirum est invenire quod calumnietur qui nihil aliud quccrit nisi quod calumnietur. (Erasmi Epist. ad Dorpium.) At all events, the paragraph passing through the medium of my own prepossessions, if any fault be found with it, the fault probably, and the blame certainly, belongs to the reporter. And which (I may add) in a more enlightened age, and in a Protestant country, impelle4 more than one German University to anathematize Fr. Hoffman's discovery of carbonic acid gas, and of its effects on animal life, as hostile to religion, and tending to atheism! Three or four students at the University of Jena, in the attempt to raise a spirit for the discovery of a supposed hidden treasure, were strangled or poisoned by the fumes of the charcoal they had been burning in a close garden-house of a vineyard near Jena, while employed in their magic fumigations and charms. One only was restored to life: and from his account of the noises and spectres (in his ears and eyes) as he was losing his senses, it...