...elements in human nature.1" And, however much Carlyle might have mocked Coleridge for having found 'the sublime secret of believing by "the reason" what...understanding" had been obliged to fling out as incredible', his work continued to find an audience. His insistence that if one followed truth one would find oneself...

...men, a higher than literary, a kind of prophetic or magician character. He was thought to hold, he alone in England, the key of German and other Transcendentalisms;...understanding" had been obliged to fling out as incredible A sublime man; who, alone in those dark days had saved his crown of spiritual manhood; escaping from...

...latter day in respect, above all things, of his philosophic orthodoxy. " He was thought to hold — he alone in England — the key of German and other transcendentalisms...with him — profess himself an orthodox Christian To the rising spirits of the young generation he had this dusky sublime character " Of the character...

...men, a higher than literary, a kind of prophetic or magician character. He was thought to hold, he alone in England, the key of German and other Transcendentalisms;...to fling out as incredible; and could still, after Hume1 and Voltaire had done their best and worst with him, profess himself an orthodox Christian, and...

...did not convince all his hearers or readers. Carlyle observed bluntly that Coleridge had discovered "the sublime secret of believing by the reason what...understanding had been obliged to fling out as incredible". Few, probably, now think of Coleridge in connection with political philosophy. Yet there is no subject...

...had found it necessary to deny ; and thus exposes himself to Carlyle's sarcasm that he had discovered 'the sublime secret of believing by the reason what...understanding had been obliged to fling out as incredible.' It would be grossly unfair to say that this exhausts the teaching of Coleridge in the region of metaphysics....

...foundation to the full. He thought he had learned from Coleridge what Carlyle contemptuously calls "the sublime secret of believing by 'the reason' what 'the understanding' had been 1 Mill's Autobiography, 153-154. obliged to fling out as incredible1." Hence that amazing torturing...