CONTENTS. PAGE CHAP. I. Motives to the present work-Reception of the Author's first publication-Discipline of his taste at school-Effect of con- CHAP. II. Supposed irritability of men of genius brought to the test of facts-Causes and occasions of the charge-Its injustice. 163 CHAP. III. The Author's obligations to Critics, and the probable CHAP. IV. The Lyrical Ballads with the Preface-Mr. Wordsworth's CHAP. VI. That Hartley's system, as far as it differs from that of Aristotle, is neither tenable in theory, nor founded in facts CHAP. VII. Of the necessary consequences of the Hartleian Theory- CHAP. VIII. The system of Dualism introduced by Des Cartes-Re- ed first by Spinoza and afterwards by Leibnitz into the doctrine Harmonia præstabilita—Hylozoism—Materialism-None of se systems, or any possible theory of association, supplies or persedes a theory of Perception, or explains the formation of CHAP. IX. Is Philosophy possible as a science, and what are its con- ditions?-Giordano Bruno-Literary Aristocracy, or the existence of a tacit compact among the learned as a privileged order-The Author's obligations to the Mystics-to Immanuel Kant-The dif- ference between the letter and the spirit of Kant's writings, and a vindication of prudence in the teaching of Philosophy-Fichte's attempt to complete the Critical system--Its partial success and ultimate failure-Obligations to Schelling; and among English CHAP. X. A chapter of digression and anecdotes, as an interlude preceding that on the nature and genesis of the Imagination or Plastic Power-On Pedantry and pedantic expressions-Advice to young authors respecting publication-Various anecdotes of the Author's literary life, and the progress of his opinions in Religion Vol. I. CHAP. XIV. Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects origi- i CHAP. XV. The specific symptoms of poetic power elucidated in a 441 O 453 CHAP. XVI. Striking points of difference between the Poets of the - 42.4 CHAP. XVIII Language of metrical composition, why and wherein CHAP. XIX. Continuation.-Concerning the real object which, it is CHAP. XX. The former subject continued-The neutral style, or CHAP. XXII. The characteristic defects of Wordsworth's poetry, 491 . 517 527 546 can properly be said to defraud another, nor ought to be so spoken of, who has not a fraudulent intention: but it never yet has been proved, after all the pains that have been taken to this effect, that Mr. Coleridge intended to deprive Schelling of any part of the honor that rightfully belongs to him, or that he has, by Mr. Coleridge's means, been actually deprived of it, even for an hour. With regard to the first ground of accusation, it is doubtless to be regretted by every friend of the accused, that he should have adopted so important a portion of the words and thoughts of Schelling without himself making those distinct and accurate references, which he might have known would eventually be required as surely as he succeeded in his attempt to recommend the metaphysical doctrines contained in them to the attention of students in this country. Why did Mr. Coleridge act thus, subjecting himself, as he might well have anticipated, aware as he was of the hostile spirit against his person and principles, that existed in many quarters, to suspicion from the illiberal, and contumelious treatment at the hands of the hard and unscrupulous? Why he so acted those who best knew him can well understand, without seeing in his conduct evidence of unconscientiousness: they see the truth of the matter to be this, that to give those distinct and accurate references, for the neglect of which he is now so severely arraigned, would have caused him much trouble of a kind to him peculiarly irksome, and that he dispensed himself from it in the belief, that the general declaration which he had made upon the subject was sufficient both for Schelling and for himself. This will be the more intelligible when it is borne in mind, that, as all who knew his literary habits will believe, the passages from Schelling, which he wove into his own work, were not transcribed for the occasion, but merely transferred from his notebook into the text, some of them, in all likelihood, not even from his note-book immediately, but from recollection of its contents. It is most probable that he mistook some of these translated passages for compositions of his own, and quite improbable, as all who know his careless ways will agree, that he should have noted down accurately the particular works and portions of works from which they came. "But even with the fullest conviction," says Archdeacon Hare, |