Young Coleridge and the Philosophers of NatureAs a young man, Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in an age of great social change. The political upheavals in America and France, the industrial revolution, and the explosion in humanity's knowledge of the natural order all had a profound effect on Coleridge and radical intellectuals like him. This book examines Coleridge's ideas on science and society in the critical years 1794 to 1796, setting them within the moral, political, and scientific context of the time. Wylie shows how the complex poem, Religious Musings, became a vehicle for these ideas and how they were then developed in the poetry of Coleridge's later years. |
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Ian Wylie. And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies ; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances ...
Ian Wylie. And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies ; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances ...
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... spirit , there are many principles , which being less ' gross ' than the ' material mass ' , take on the status of imponderable agents , hovering like aether between matter and spirit . Thus like aether itself , Coleridge's conception ...
... spirit , there are many principles , which being less ' gross ' than the ' material mass ' , take on the status of imponderable agents , hovering like aether between matter and spirit . Thus like aether itself , Coleridge's conception ...
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... Spirit ( 1777 ) , he decided that the Jesuit had abolished the distinction between matter and spirit : The principles of the Newtonian philosophy were no sooner known , than it was seen how few , in comparison of the phenomena of nature ...
... Spirit ( 1777 ) , he decided that the Jesuit had abolished the distinction between matter and spirit : The principles of the Newtonian philosophy were no sooner known , than it was seen how few , in comparison of the phenomena of nature ...
Contents
The Ancient Tradition of Knowledge | 12 |
Wrestling with the Spirit of Newton | 27 |
The Elect Band of Patriot Sages | 47 |
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