Coleridge’s Writings Volume 4: On Religion and Psychology Edited by John Beer COLERIDGE’S WRITINGS General Editor: John Beer Volume 4: On Religion and Psychology COLERIDGE’S WRITINGS Myriad-minded in his intellectual interests, Coleridge often passed quickly from one subject to another, so that the range and mass of the materials he left can be bewildering to later readers Coleridge’s Writings is a series addressed to those who wish to have a guide to his important statements on particular subjects Each volume presents his writings in a major field of human knowledge or thought, tracing the development of his ideas Connections are also made with relevant writings in the period, suggesting the extent to which Coleridge was either summing up, contributing to or reacting against current developments Each volume is produced by a specialist in the field; the general editor is John Beer, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, who has published various studies of Coleridge’s thought and poetry Volume On Politics and Society edited by John Morrow Volume On Humanity edited by Anya Taylor Volume On Language edited by A C Goodson Volume On Religion and Psychology edited by John Beer Coleridge’s Writings Volume On Religion and Psychology Edited by John Beer Emeritus Professor of English Literature University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse Editorial matter and selection © John Beer 2002 All rights reserved No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N Y 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd) ISBN 0–333–73490–4 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress 10 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire 02 Contents Foreword vii List of Abbreviations ix Coleridge’s Life x Introduction 1 The Early Intellectual Quest A Religion of Life? 29 Self-Examinings 46 Psychological Speculations 60 The Existence and Nature of God 82 Questions of Evil and the Will 110 ‘Science, Freedom and the Truth ’ 128 Original Sin and the True Reason 154 Doctrines and Illuminations 179 10 Other Faiths 203 Conclusions 230 Notes 258 Index 267 v This page intentionally left blank Foreword The appearance of hitherto unpublished material in the last hundred years has brought out more fully the range and complexity of Coleridge’s intelligence and knowledge The Notebooks and Collected Works, both now well on the way to completion, together with the Collected Letters, have made it increasingly evident that this was the most extraordinary English mind of the time The specialist or more general student who wishes to know what Coleridge had to say on a particular subject may, however, find the sheer mass of materials bewildering, since in his less formal writings he passed quickly from one subject to another Coleridge’s Writings is a series addressed to such readers In each volume a particular area of Coleridge’s interest is explored, with an attempt to present his most significant statements and to show the development of his thought on the subject in question Of all the multifarious interests Coleridge showed in his career religion could be said to have been the deepest and most lasting Intended originally for the Church, he remained preoccupied by his thinking on the subject for long stretches of his life, particularly during his later years Even his poetry—for which he is of course best known—cannot fully be understood without taking this substratum into account He was also, to a degree quite unusual in his time, preoccupied by the life of the mind Accordingly, while the attempt here is to present a conspectus of his religious thinking the chief focus is on that area where it ran side by side with psychological inquiry The shifts in his intellectual and religious positions were marked by varying amounts of attention to religion in his writings During the early years there were a few notebook entries and letters, coupled with his writing for the 1795 Lectures in Bristol During the years of dialogue with Wordsworth, comments of a religious nature were spread across notebooks, letters and general writings; following the Malta years the Christian element intensified, particularly with the writing of The Friend Whereas in other volumes of this series the materials have been reasonably limited, here they overflow abundantly There are many entries in the notebooks and marginal comments in religious books, his new absorption being marked both by the Lay Sermons and then by his most important published work on the subject, the Aids to Reflection vii viii Foreword Concurrent with his work towards this came a great deal of criticism of and commentary on the Bible—so much so that it is hoped to produce another volume of Coleridge’s Writings devoted exclusively to it In his last years he was increasingly exercised by the desire to produce a significant religious work: his ‘Opus Maximum’, sometimes referred to as his ‘Assertion of Religion’ At the time of compilation of the present volume this was still unpublished in full, though a number of extracts had appeared in other places The serious student of Coleridge’s religious thought will want to consult the new volume—particularly on topics such as the Trinity—but it will in itself be so extensive as to preclude the extracting of more than one or two passages for a volume such as this In the same way, topics raised in this volume can in many cases be pursued at greater length in the pages of works such as The Friend, the Lectures on the History of Philosophy or On the Constitution of the Church and State Here, as always, the editorial work in the Princeton edition will be found invaluable by the reader who wishes to inquire further I wish to express my gratitude to Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press for permission to reproduce extracts from Coleridgean texts; to Samantha Harvey for assistance with selection of extracts from the Letters; and to Hazel Dunn for help with the preparation of the typescript J B B General Editor List of Abbreviations AR BL CC CL CM CN C&S Friend HW Lects (1795) LS PW (Beer) SWF TT 〈〉 [] Coleridge, Aids to Reflection [1825], ed John Beer, CC (1993) Coleridge, Biographia Literaria [1817], ed James Engell and Walter Jackson Bate, CC (2 vols 1983) The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, general ed Kathleen Coburn, associate ed Bart Winer (Princeton N.J and London 1969–) Coleridge, Collected Letters, ed E.L Griggs (6 vols., Oxford 1956–71) Coleridge, Marginalia, ed George Whalley, CC 12 (5 vols so far published out of a projected 6, 1980–) Coleridge, Notebooks, ed Kathleen Coburn (4 vols so far published out of a projected 5, Princeton, N.J and London 1959–; volume from draft) Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State [1829], ed John Colmer, CC 10 (1976) Coleridge, The Friend [1809–18], ed Barbara Rooke, CC (2 vols 1969) The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed P.P Howe (21 vols 1930–4) Coleridge, Lectures 1795: On Politics and Religion, ed Lewis Patton and Peter Mann, CC (1971) Coleridge, Lay Sermons [1816–17], ed R.J White, CC (1972) Coleridge, Poems, ed J.B Beer, new edn, Everyman (2000) Coleridge, Shorter Works and Fragments, ed H.J Jackson and J.R de J Jackson, CC 11 (1995) Coleridge, Table Talk, ed Carl Woodring, CC 14 (2 vols 1990) Coleridge’s additions to his text Matter added by editor ix Notes 261 29 CL V 19 30 CN II 2112 31 Ibid., III 3295 The Existence and Nature of God CL I 20 Ibid., I 153 Ibid., I 366 CN I 922 Ibid., II 2448, below, pp 86–7 CL II 1189 Paradise Lost IV 520 Letter of 25 July 1800, CL I 612 Quoted, J.R Barth, Coleridge and Christian Doctrine (Cambridge, Mass., 1969) p 94 10 Marginal comment on p 389 of Daniel Waterland’s Importance of the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity (2nd edn., 1734): Notes on English Divines (1853) p 210, to be re-edited in CM VI 11 Further discussion may be found in chapter 4, ‘The One and Triune God’, of Barth’s book Textnotes 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 BL I 179–80 TT I 488–9 CN III 3743 Ibid., II 2448 Ibid., II 1188–90 Ibid., II 1192 CL II 1193–9 SWF I 259–60 CL III 480–6 Ibid., IV 545 Ibid., IV 849–51 Ibid., V 86–7 CN., III 3813 Ibid., III 3820 SWF I 415–16 CN II 2445 TT I 278–9 SWF II 1510–12 CN III 4087 SWF I 411 CN IV 4816 TT 22 February 1834: I 462–3 262 Notes Questions of Evil and the Will See e.g his letters to Southey, 11 December 1794 (CL I 139) and to Thelwall in May 1796 (ibid., I 213) Ibid., II 706 Ibid., I 238 See, e.g Paradise Lost II 555–61; V 519–43 Textnotes 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ‘The Destiny of Nations’, lines 60–3; 80–91 CN IV 4283 CL I 114–15 Ibid., I 192–3 Ibid., I 396 Ibid., II 1032 CN I 1619 Ibid., I 1622 Ibid., I 1640–1 Ibid., I 1770 Ibid., II 2537 CL III 466 Ibid., III 467 TT I 106–7 AR 139–41 CN IV 5271 Ibid., III 3675 Ibid., III 3701 SWF I 256–9 CN II 2208 Ibid., IV 5195 Ibid., IV 5243 ‘Science, Freedom and the Truth ’ For an account of Coleridge’s interest in Naturphilosophie, including its relation to his Trinitarianism, see Raimonda Modiano, Coleridge and the Concept of Nature (1985) pp 138–206 Textnotes CL I 320–1 Ibid., I 244–5 Ibid., II 727 CN II 2330 To Dorothy Wordsworth, November 1807: CL III 38 Ibid., III 128–9 Ibid., III 146 Ibid., III 171–2 Friend, I 470 Notes 263 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 CN II 2640 To Mary Cruikshank, 1807: CL III 32 CN III 3885 (cf 3892; 3893; 3896; 3897) SWF I 807 Ibid., I 589–94; CN IV 4512 Ibid., V 5930 Marginal annotation on Southey’s Life of Wesley: CM V 141–2 CL IV 760–1 CL IV 574–5 Lects (1818–19) I 316–17 SWF II 894–8 CN III 4377 Ibid., III 4378 Ibid., III 3593 Ibid., III 3619 CL IV 767–9 Ibid., IV 770 Ibid., IV 775 Original Sin and the True Reason MS Letter of 13 April 1814 in Perkins Library, Duke University I am grateful to Heather Jackson for having drawn my attention to this; see also her headnote at CM III 507 CM III 507–13 Textnotes AR 250–7 Ibid., 265–85 (quoting from Jeremy Taylor) Ibid., 288 Ibid., 291–2 Ibid., 216–25; 236 Ibid., 236–8 Ibid., 351–4 Ibid., 357–9 Doctrines and Illuminations Table Talk, 25–6 August 1827: TT I 87 A previous record for July conveys a more reasoned critique: ‘first persecuting, then tautological, and lastly heretical Author unknown’ Ibid., 78 Ibid., II 433 Apart from the examples quoted below, examples of such confessions can be found in CN III 3581, 4005, 4340; CL IV 631 (cf 686) and AR 197–8 See below, pp 190–1 Christian Observer XLIV (1845) 262 A long and valuable footnote to TT I 152–3 contains this quotation along with many further references 264 Notes Textnotes 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 10 CN III 3964 SWF I 570–1 Ibid., II 1484–6 CN III 3857 TT I 313 CL IV 81–2; CN IV 4750 (cf AR 361–7) CL V 444–5 SWF II 9012 TT I 134–6 Poems (Beer) 61n CN I 257 Poems (Beer) 424 Ibid., 442 CL III 478–9 TT I 152–3 Ibid., I 138 CL VI 684–5 Ibid., V 496–7 Poems (Beer) 472–4 CN II 2440, 2469 Ibid., V 5492 SWF I 156 Poems (Beer) 486 CN II 2921 Other Faiths See CL IV 751, Gillman, Life of Coleridge (1838) 21–2, and his table talk of 21 July 1832 and 21 April 1811: TT I 310 and 12 See ibid., I 415–16, 457–9 Ibid., I 417 Anima Poetae, ed E.H Coleridge (1895), p 159 NB 17.78v: Anima Poetae, p 143 CN I 864 C & S 56 See my Coleridge’s Poetic Intelligence (1977) pp 109–11, 227–8, 268 CN I 204; see also his own temptation to ‘adopt the Brahman creed’: CL I 350 10 See my Coleridge the Visionary (1959) pp 96, 102, 113, 247 Textnotes SWF I 454–5 Ibid., I 322–4 TT I 454–5 CN V 5637 Ibid., III 3900, discussing Joseph Nightingale’s Portraiture of Methodism Ibid., III 3901 Notes 265 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 TT I 492–3 Ibid., I 236–40 Ibid., I 430 Ibid., I 415–16 Ibid., I 458–9 CN III 3872 TT I 49–50 CN IV 4338 TT I 368–71 CN II 2664 CM III 737 Ibid., III 740 To Edward Coleridge, CL VI 596 TT I 100 CN IV 4769 Ibid., IV 4794 CL III 373–4 CN IV 4737 Ibid., IV 4973 Ms ‘On the Divine Ideas’, quoted in John Muirhead’s Coleridge as Philosopher (1930) p 284 The source of the quotation is untraced CN V 6615 Ibid., III 3909 Ibid., III 3911 Ibid., III 3925 Ibid., III 3907 CAR 107 Conclusions BL chapter 13, I 304 Ibid., 304n See Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia (1794–6) II 240 CN III 4056 Textnotes 10 11 12 CN I 1623 Ibid., I 2441 BL II 234–5; 247–8 SWF I 419–21 AR 383–407 CN III 3881 CN V 6450 TT I 248–9 CL VI 597–8; 600 Ibid., VI 595–6 TT I 116 TT I 496–7 (cf 389 and n.) 266 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Notes CL VI 928 Ibid., VI 890–1 Ibid., VI 893 Ibid., VI 895 Ibid., VI 897 To Thomas Pringle, ibid., VI 940–1 CN V 5995 From J.A Heraud’s posthumous oration, quoted by Lucy E Watson, Coleridge at Highgate (1925) p 158 Index Abraham, 220 Adam, 111, 159, 164, 170 aether, 60, 145 Africa, 199 Ahimelech, 220 Aids to Reflection, 2, 111, 179, 187, 190, 196, 204, 231, 254 Aleph, 76 Alexandrinus, Clemens, 238 ‘All look or likeness’, 233 alogi, 157 Alps, 42 Anabaptists, 187, 207 anatomy, 243 ‘Ancient Mariner’, 61, 193, 196, 240n angels, 201 Anglican Church, 1, 194, 205; see also Church of England Anima Mundi, 246 animal magnetism, 60, 137 Anthropomorphites, 83 Anti-christ, 217 Antioch, 181 ants, 171 Apocrypha, 185 Apollo, 61, 210, 223 Apostles’ Creed, 181, 182 apparitions, 62, 72, 131, 240 Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 196 Arabian Tales, 224 Arians, 181, 209, 211 Aristotle, 65, 156n Arminian, 186, 190, 228 Arnauld, A., 192, 238n art, 156n ‘Assertion of Religion’, 155 association, 16, 118 astronomer, 18 Athanasian creed, 179 Athanasius, 179, 215 atheism, 12, 168, 255 atheist, 11, 245n atonement, 125, 186 Augustine, 190 Autenrieth, J.H.F., 73 Babylon, 243 Bacon, Francis, 65, 96, 149 Baptism, 187, 192, 212, 221 Barabbas, 138 Barrow, Isaac, 177 Barth, J.R., 261 Bates, 211 Baxter, Richard, 211 Beddoes, Dr, 131 bees, 138, 171 Beethoven, 196 Behmen, Jacob, 153, 237, 240 Being, 107, 150, 151, 157n, 201, 232, 248 Bellarmino, R.F.R., 206 Bellingham, J., 243 benevolence, 11, 14, 15 Berkeley, George, Berkleian, 114, 222, 245n Bernouilli, J., 245n Berzelius, J.J von, 140, 243 Bethlehem, Beverly, R., 132 Bible, 94, 185, 195 Bichat, M.X.-V., 73, 250 Biographia Literaria, 5, 47, 83, 231, 233 Blanchard’s Medical Dictionary, 56 blasphemy, 10 Blumenbach, J.F., 61, 130 Boehme, Jacob, 2, 203 Botany Bay, 5, 25 Bowyer, J., 55 Boyle, R., 121, 132 Brahmin, Brahmanism, 167, 168, 205, 221, 224, 264 Brande, W.T., 140 Bristol, 4, 128, 154 Bristol, Bishop of, 210 Browne, Sir Thomas, 137 Bruno, Giordano, 153, 245n 267 268 Index Buchanan, Dr Claudius, 221 Buddhism, Buddhist, 168, 224 bull-calf, 73, 177 Bull, George, 101 Buller, Judge, 55 bulls, 67, 70, 100 butterfly, 148 Butler, Bishop, 75 Cæsar, Julius, 22 Cain, 240 Calvinist, Calvinistic, 167, 186, 190, 191, 208, 217, 228 Calvinist Methodist, 209 Cambridge, 49, 58, 82 Jesus College, 3, 56 Platonists, Carlyle, Thomas, 47 Cartesian, 109; see also Descartes Catholic, Catholicism, 124, 182, 214, 215; see also Roman Catholicism Catholic Church, 213 Cato’s Letters, 52, 56 causality, 11 Cause, causes, 10, 18 and effect, 234 ceremony, 216, 238 chain, 160 chance, 18 chemist, chemistry, 131, 132, 134, 141, 242 childhood, 16 Chillingsworthian, 86 Chinese, 218 ‘Christabel’, 196, 240n Christian Observer, 199, 200 Christ’s Hospital, 3, 55 Chrysostom, John, 191 Church of England, 183, 208, 211, 214, 235 Church of Rome, 38, 214 Cicero, 158 circulating library, 55 Clarke, E.D., 140 Clarke, Samuel, 84 Clarkson, Thomas, 89 Clement, 192 clerisy, 216 clock, 63 cloud, 244 Coates, Matthew, 37 Coleridge, Ann, 54 Coleridge, Berkeley, 233 Coleridge, Derwent, 65, 233 Coleridge, Frank, 54 Coleridge, George, 82 Coleridge, Hartley, 67, 69, 75, 205 Coleridge, John, 54, 72 Coleridge, Luke (Coleridge’s brother), 56 Coleridge, S.T Aids to Reflection, 2, 111, 179, 187, 190, 196, 204, 231, 254 ‘All look or likeness’, 233 ‘Ancient Mariner’, 61, 193, 196, 240n ‘Assertion of Religion’, 155 Biographia Literaria, 5, 47, 83, 231, 233 ‘Christabel’, 196, 240n Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, 179 ‘Destiny of Nations’, 62 ‘Eolian Harp, The’, 29, 46 ‘Flight and Return of Mohammed, The’, 223 Friend, The, 129, 133 ‘Kubla Khan’, 61, 230 ‘Limbo’, 180, 197 Lyrical Ballads, 61 On the Constitution of the Church and State, 179, 204, 205 Watchman, The, 30 Coleridge, Sara, 230, 233 Condillac, 145 Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, 179 conjunction disjunctive, 62 conn-ness, 65 conscience, 49, 72, 134, 159, 170 consciousness and being, 75 continuity, 78, 152 continuous minds, 180 contradictions, 15 Cooper, Lane, 260 Copernicus, 137 Coriolanus, 182 Corpuscular School, 242 Cottle, J., 51, 119 Council of Nice, 182 Index Council of Trent, 182, 214 Crabb Robinson, Henry, 31 Creation, 37 Crusoe, Robinson, 55 Cupid, 168 cyclical, 152 Cyprian, 190 Cyropaedia, 19 Cyrus, 195 dæmonology, 72 Dalton, John, 146 Dane, Miss, 117 Danvers, Mrs, 228 Darnton, Robert, 260 Darwin, Erasmus, 30, 94, 130, 131, 134, 145, 146, 232 Zoonomia, 30, 130 David, 84, 166, 184, 195 Davison, Dr, 121 Davy, Humphry, 83, 128, 129, 132, 134, 135, 140, 146, 242 De’ Prati, G., 145 dead, 215 deism, 124 deist, 4, 167 delusion, 144 democrats, 25 demonstration, 13 Demosthenes, 158 Denon, D.V., 219 Derham, William, 36, 176 De Sales, Francesco, 76, 226, 228 Descartes, R., 15, 96, 245 ‘Destiny of Nations’, 62 development, 147 devil, 199, 228 Discourse of Reason, 170 Dispensation, Mosaic, 16 Domenichino, 210 Don Quixote, 225 double-touch, 68, 71 Dr James’s powders, 140 drawing, 66 dream, dreams, 9, 10, 71, 72, 73, 74, 117 Dupuis, C.F., 219 Durham, see Derham duty, 118, 206 Dyer, George, 31, 82 dynamic, 242 ebb and flow, 48 Egyptian, 223 Eichhorn, J.G., 238 electricity, 15, 137, 139, 142 Elwyn, A., 154 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, English Church, 204 Enos, 240 enthusiasm, 239 Entomology, 171 Eolian Harp, 32 ‘Eolian Harp, The’, 29, 46 Epiphanies, 227n essences, 13 Estlin, J.P., 82, 83, 154 eternity, 122, 123, 234 Eucharist, 59, 181, 190, 191, 192, 212, 215 Euclid, 13 Evangelical religion, 154 evidences, 17, 248 evil, 14, 69, 116, 155, 160, 190 evolution, 146, 232 Excursion, The (Wordsworth), 146 eye, 243 Ezra, 73, 219 faith, 181, 183, 190 Fall, 119, 256 fanatic, fanaticism, 239 fancy, 240 Farington, George, 72 fear, 233 feelings, 183 Fénelon, F de S de la M., 41, 241 Ferriar, John, 131 Fetisch-worshipper, 223 Fiat, 99, 117 Fichte, J.G., 118 Field, Barron, 177n Firmin, Thomas, 228 Flechier, J.G de la, 228 ‘Flight and Return of Mohammed, The’, 223 fly-catchers, 230, 249 Fourier, J.-J.-F., Baron, 219 269 270 Index Fourth Gospel, 238; see also St John Fox, G., 73 France, 216 Franklin, B., 140 French, 141 French Revolution, 1, 4, 60, 129 Frend, William, 4, 82 Friend, The, 129, 133 Friends, 196 galvanism, 138, 142 genie, 196, 223 gentlemanliness, 232, 252, 253 geometry, 187 Germany, 61, 130, 141 ghosts, 62 Gilbert, L.W., 140 glory, 33 Gmelin, L., 143 Gnostics, 21, 209 God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 247 Godwin, William, 128 gothic nations, 149 Grasmere, 64 gravitation, 12, 145, 247, 254 gravity, 15 Greek, Greeks, Greece, 124, 149, 219 Green, J.H., 232, 255, 257 Greenland, 43 Greta, river, 65 Grotian Paleian, 135 Grotius, H., 88, 227n guilt, 113, 133 Guyon, Madame de, 2, 41, 224, 226 Gymnotus, 138, 143 Hall, Robert, 51 Handel, 195 Harrington, 171 Hartley, David, 18, 23, 35, 38, 63, 145, 228 Hatchett, Charles, 135, 243 hawk, 70 Haygarth, John, 33 horse-hair, 164 Hazlitt, William, 5, 35, 36, 114 Hebrews, 17, 148 Helvetius, C.A., 49 Henry IV, 216 Henry VIII, 216 Heraclitus, 153, 171 heresy, 214 Hermas, 192 Herod, 123 Herodotus, 219, 220 Hindus, Hindoos, 218, 221 Hobbes, Thomas, 120 Homer, 24, 220, 243 homoiousios, 181 Hooker, Richard, Horsley, S., 44, 86, 105 Huber, J.P., 171 Hume, David, 47, 90 Hunter, John, 243 Hurwitz, Hyman, 218 Hutchinson, Sara, 129, 179 hypnotism, hypnotic powers, 130 I am, 230, 232, 235, 254, 255, 257 idealism, 245 ideas, 252 ideas, innate, 13 idiot, idiocy, 3, 150, 160 illusions, 63, 67 imagination, 36, 63, 71, 115, 117, 142, 223, 255 immaterialism, 113 immortality, 113, 176, 232 impersonality of God, 37 impressions and ideas, 90 impulses, 184 Incarnation, 221, 227n, 246 incomprehensibility, 113 Incomprehensible, The, 46 incomprehensible, 111 India, 199 Indian mythology, 205 Indian philosophy, 222 infinite, 51, 96, 100, 115, 149, 180, 191, 202 Infinity, 72, 121 innate ideas, 13 innocence, 117 innocent, 53, 118 instinct, 147, 148, 150 Institution, Royal, 128 integrity, 169 intuition, intuitive, 151, 250 Io, 168 Index Irenaeus, 192, 238 irritability, 250 Isaiah, 24, 137, 204 Italy, 204, 216 Jackson, H.J., 263 Janus, 167 Javan, 168 Jerusalem, 182 Jesus College, Cambridge, 3, 56 Jews, 86, 87, 218, 219, 228 John, 78, 85, 105, 107, 181, 192, 251; see also St John John, King, 216 Jonathan, 166 Jones, Sir W., 222 Joseph, 220 Jove, 220, 223 Judæa, 104 Judaico-Christian, 223 Judaism, 203 Judas, 123 Jupiter, 132, 149, 200, 210 justice, 20 Kant, I., 67, 109, 227, 245n Kepler, J., 145, 246 Keyser, 143 Kieser, D.G von, 141 Kirby, William and Spence, William, 171 Klug, 145 Kluge, C.A.F., 143 ‘Kubla Khan’, 61, 230 Lamb, Mary, 192 Lampada, 198 language, 233 Latimer, Hugh, 208 Latin, 124 law, 165, 195, 246 Law, William, 237 Lawrence, Miss, 254 Le Sage, G.-L., 146 leaven, 22 Leibniz, G.W., Leibnizian, 102, 245 Leighton, Robert, 2, 52, 94, 154f, 170, 194 leopard, 51 271 Leyden, 187 ‘Limbo’, 180, 197 Linois, C.A.L.D., comte de, 118 Liverpool, Lord, 145 Locke, John, Lockeian, 18, 23, 145, 151, 206 Lodore, 34 Logos (Λ2γος), 21, 41, 87, 88, 93, 101, 106, 171, 191, 201, 257 London Hospital, 56 Louis XVI, 143 Love, 8, 91, 183, 232 Lumen, 78 Luther, Martin, Lutheran, 2, 58, 87, 186, 191, 204, 214, 217, 218 Lycurgus, 213 Lyonnet, P., 132, 176 Lyrical Ballads, 61 machine, 244 madness, madmen, 70, 75, 118, 152, 225 Magdalen, Mary, 5, 25 magnetism, 12, 15 Mahomet, 87, 205, 223 Mahometan, 86, 145 Maia, 222 Malta, 43, 49, 50, 129, 204 Malthus, T., 68 Mamelukes, 216 mania, maniac, 160 Mant, Richard, 187 materialists, materialism, 242, 244 mathematics, mathematician, 39, 130, 141 Mecca, 241 mechanical, 231 mediator, 185 Melanchthon, P., 58, 208 Memnon, 32 Memory, 109 Mephibosheth, 166 Mesmer, Anton, 140, 141, 143 metaphor, 192 metaphysics, 132, 233 metaphysical reasoner, 11 Methodism, Methodist, 205, 208, 209, 210 Methuen, T.A., 179 272 Index Meyer, 145 Michal, 166 Middleton, T.F., 56 miracles, 16, 18, 38, 88, 93, 129, 135, 136, 137, 143, 193, 228 Milton, John, 24, 36, 83, 111, 158, 198 Paradise Lost, 13 mind, 196, 242 missionaries, 221 mist, 201 Monboddo, J.B., 130 Monotheism, 220 Monro, A., 131 moon, moonlight, moonshine, 18, 50, 197, 241 morality, 182, 249 Moravian, Moravianism, 203, 208, 210 More, Hannah, 154, 199 Morgan, J.J., 221 Mosaic, 219 Mosaic Dispensation, 16 Moses, 73, 87, 133, 194, 220 mother, 176 Mozart, 195 Munster, 18 mystery, 168, 169, 248 mystic theologians, 234 mysticism, 231, 239 mythology, Indian, 205 Napoleon, 1, 219 Napoleonic wars, 129 Natura Naturans, 157n Natura Naturata, 157n Nature, 10, 41, 145, 148, 152, 153, 159, 177, 180, 196, 201, 220, 241, 247, 250, 252, 256 Naturphilosophen, 130 Nayler, James, 101 ‘Ne plus Ultra’, 180 necessity, necessitated, 52, 247 necessitarianism, 86 Nero, 114 New South Wales, 177n Newman, J.H., 204 Newman’s Blow-pipe, 140 Newton, Sir Isaac, Newtonian, 18, 23, 96, 138, 151, 173, 245n, 246 Principia, 60 Newtonian System, 19 Nicene Council, 181f Nicene creed, 101, 179, 215 Nieuwentiejt, B., 176 nightingale, 209 nightmare, 70, 74 Noumena, 217 Oakley, Dr, 208 Oersted, H.C., 242 Okenist, 223 Omniana, 206 omnipotence, 188 omnipresence, 185, 247 omniscience, 111 On the Constitution of the Church and State, 179, 204, 205 opium, 53, 66, 111 optimism, 236 ‘Opus Maximum’, 155, 205 orang outang, 146 organ, 244 organic, 250 organic being, 252 organism, 231 origin of evil, 158 Original Sin, 158, 190, 221 Oroondates, 225 Osorio, 205 Otter, River, 55 Ottery St Mary, 65 Oxford Movement, 205 Paedo-baptism, 190 paganism, 149 pain, 14 Paine, Thomas, 18 Palestine, 149 Paley, William, 36, 52, 88, 100, 125, 126, 136, 227n, 255 Pangloss, 112 Pantheism, Pantheistic, 82, 167, 168, 220, 222 Papists, 213 Paraclete, 248 Paris, 141 Index Peace of God, 184 Pelagian, 190 Pelasgic, 223 Penn, William, 206, 213 percipient, 63 Persepolis, 243 Persians, 218, 222 ‘personëity’, 84 Phaenomena, 217 Pharaoh, 220 Philips, Mrs, 54 Philo, 101 philosopher, 106 philosophy, mechanico-corpuscular, 244, 248 physiology, 243 Pietism, 210 Piper, H.W., 258 Plato, Platonism, 21, 81, 85, 87, 91, 104, 118, 120, 131, 153, 157n, 208, 210 Platonic, 83, 129, 146, 250 Platonic Fathers, 105 Platonists, Cambridge, 2, 39, 190 Platonizing doctors, 181 Platonizing Socinianism, 53 Pleuronectae, 246 Plotinus, 104, 105 Plutarch, 73 poiesis, 99 polyp, 196 polytheism, 72, 220 Pompey, 136 Pope, 146, 216 Popery, 221, 228 Porteus, 199 positiveness, 249 practical reason, 170 prayer, 179, 184, 185, 190, 192, 193, 201, 215 pre-existence, 123 pregnancy, 113 Prelude (Wordsworth), 129 Presbyter, Presbyterian, 186, 210, 211 Priestley, Joseph, 44, 60, 84, 85, 87, 113, 128, 131, 133, 136, 246 Priestleianism, 255 principle, principles, 1, 183 Proclus, 104 273 prognostication, 196 Prometheus, 168, 246 property, 17, 163 prophecy, 190, 194, 195 prophets, 223 Protestant, Protestantism, 124, 215, 221 Proverbs, 170 Pryce, Mr, 100 Psilanthropism, 84 Psyche, 168 psyche, 161 Purgatory, 225 Puritan, 210 Puységur, Marquis de, 140, 143 Pythagoras, 117, 250 Quaker, Quakerism, 203, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213, 217 Quietist, 240 quinquarticular, 163 Quintus Curtius, 124 Rabbinical, 219 radical, 1, 4, 30 Rafael, 134, 210 Ramus, Petrus, 216 Ray, John, 36 reality, 90 Reason, 1, 70, 71, 77, 105, 112, 121, 131, 134, 159, 160, 161, 170, 180, 201, 217, 232, 233, 235, 236, 253, 255 and understanding, 155 ‘Recluse, The’ (Wordsworth), 129 redemption, 185, 186, 221, 246 reflexion, 44 Reil, J.C., 73 Relly, J., 126 religation, 93, 194 religion, 206, 252 Religious Musings, 4, remark, 87 remorse, 228 repentance, 25 republic, 17 republics, Grecian, 210 revelation, 255 reverie, 71 Right, 206 274 Index Robinson, J., 190, 218 Rome, Romans, 148, 149, 218 Roman Catholicism, 204, 214, 216, 227n; see also Pope, Popery Romanist, Romists, Romish, Romish Church, 180, 186, 190, 191 Sabbath, 87 of the Spirit, 251 Sabellian, 56, 213 Saint, 215 St Basil, 73 St Epifanius, 209 St John, 21, 87, 101, 231 St Paul, 21, 24, 85, 102, 170, 178, 186, 192, 204, 210, 219, 229, 231f, 253, 255 St Peter, 26, 125 St Polycarp, 125 St Stephen, 125 St Teresa, 2, 205, 217, 224, 226 Samosatenis (Samosteno), Paulus (Paul), 181 Sandford, Bishop, 253 Sanscrit, 196 Satan, 200 satisfaction, 20 Saul, 166 Saumarez, Dr., 56 Schelling, F.W.J von, 152 science, 195, 231, 256 Scotus, Scotists, 38, 153, 216 self-, 54 Seneca, 21 sensibility, 183, 250 sentiment, 183 seraphs, 90 Servetus, Michael, 208 Seven Champions of Christendom, 54 Shaftesbury, 3rd earl of, 120 Shakespere (Shakespeare), 36, 134, 135 Shedd, W.G.T., 83 Sheridan, R., 116 Shrewsbury, 5, 6, 82 Sidney, 243 sin, 160 Sinai, Mount, 133, 178 Skelton, Philip, 122 sky, 176 snake, 53, 99 Socinus, Socinianism, 84, 133, 180, 181, 186, 209, 211, 254 Socrates, 21, 125, 207 Solifidianism, 102 Somersetshire, 27 somnambulism, 71 Southey, Robert, 36, 37, 82, 126, 153, 205, 223 space, 152, 153, 247 Spain, 21 Spence, William, 171 Spinoza, B., Spinozism, 31, 38, 39, 40, 82, 87, 100, 124, 125, 134, 153, 222, 245n, 251, 255 Spirit, 8, 21, 156, 188, 195, 242, 248 spiritual crisis, stag-beetle, 252 Stahl, G.E., 146 Stoic Pride, 184 Swedenborg, E., 73, 102 sun, 28, 202, 250, 252 supernatural, 159, 160, 162, 166 superstition, 69, 112, 185 superstitious, 90, 192 symbol, 17, 62, 63, 79, 80, 217 symbolism, 40 system, 249 Syro-Chaldean, 219 Talmud, 219 Tartars, 39 Taylor, Jeremy, 2, 153, 158, 162, 163, 164, 176, 192 Temple of Religion, Temple of Superstition, 10 Tertullian, 123 Tetractys, 84 Thelwall, John, 5, 23 Theocritus, 223 Theodiabolists, 199 thinking, thought, 64, 90 Thomists, 38 Tiberius, 114 Tieck, Ludwig, 145 time, 152, 156, 219, 234 tithes, 212 toleration, 205, 206, 207 Index torpedo, 32, 143 Trajan, 182 trance, 63 transubstantiation, 215, 238n Tree of Life, 159 Treviranus, L.C., 145 Tridentine Conspiracy, 181 Trinitarianism, 20, 83 Trinity, 187, 190, 221, 232 Tucker, Abraham, 35 Tulk, C.A., 79, 102 Tully, 21 tyrants, 18 Tyson, Edward, 130 understanding, 232 Unitarian, Unitarianism, 1, 2, 4, 82, 83, 129, 186, 190, 203, 205, 209, 211, 216, 228, 254 universality of belief, 177 unleavened self, 54 Unzer, D., 132 Veeshnoo (Vishnu), 227n veil, 50, 252 vice, 14, 16 Vice-gerents, 21 Virgil, 24 virtue, 16 volition, 67, 68, 70, 74, 114, 118, 139, 142 Voltaire, 47, 49, 52, 56 vortices, Cartesian, 246 Wade, L., 74, 190 ‘Wanderings of Cain’, 241n Warburton, W., 200, 237 warmth, 64 watch, 67 Watchman, The, 30 275 Watchmen, 196 waterfall, 34 waterist, 188 Waterland, D., 101, 261 Wedgwoods, Weinholt, 143 Wesley, John, 210, 228 Wheeler, John, 179 Whitfield, George, 228 Wilberforce, William, 154, 199 will, 120, 121, 138, 153, 161, 162, 168, 169, 217, 224, 226n, 227, 248, 251, 252, 253, 255 Wilkins, Sir Charles, 223 Wilson, Mr, 222 wines, 204 Wisdom of Solomon, 99, 170 Wishart, George, 125 Wolfart, K.C., 143 Wollaston, W.H., 135 wonder, 175 Word, Divine, 171, 235, 251, 255 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1, 30, 31, 61, 70, 231 Wordsworth, John, 118 Wordsworth, William, 1, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 61, 64, 114, 128, 146, 153, 179, 231 The Prelude, 129 ‘The Recluse’, 129 Wotton, Sir Henry, 214 Wylie, Ian, 258 Wyndham (Windham, William), 116 Xenophon, 19, 208 zoo-magnetism, 145 zoologist, 18 Zoonomia, 30, 130 Zwingli, Zwinglian, 186, 208 ... 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