becomes dim, whatever it be-so dim that I know not what it is; but the feeling is deep and steady, and this I call I-identifying the percipient and the perceived.'

18. he might reply, &c. Cp. T. T., Nov. 1, 1833, 'None but "I am I" or one-God-can say 66 that I am "'. F. N. Cp. p. 95, 1. 2, and note.

PAGE 186 1. 4. We are not investigating, &c. Cp. Transc. Id., p. 357.

16. The transcendental philosopher, &c.__Thesis X to the words 'that exists for us', is taken bodily from Transc. Id., pp. 355-6, and the remainder of the second paragraph, to the words 'will or intelligence', from p. 29, except for some explanatory sentences (ref. Biog. Lit. 1847).

PAGE 187 1. 30. the position of Malbranche. See Malebranche, De la Recherche de la Vérité, Bk. iii, esp. ch. vi (ref. ib.).

PAGE 188 1. 1. intelligence... revealed as an earlier power. Cp. Schelling's 'Epochs in the history of self-consciousness', ib. p. 398. 3. Máκap' ali pot. Synesius, Hymn, iii. 113 (ref. ib.). ἵλαθί μοι.

12. two opposite... forces. Cp. Schelling's 'antagonistic activities', Transc. Id., pp. 432 ff.

PAGE 180 1.6. Kant, de Mundi, &c. See Werke, ed. Hartenstein, ii. 396.

8. Critics, &c. With this paragraph and the following cp. the Abhandlung, pp. 347-9, where Schelling describes the AntiKantianer' in somewhat similar terms.

PAGE 191 1. 17. non inutiles scientiae. From De Augm. Scient. vi. c. 3 (ref. Biog. Lit. 1847).

PAGE 192 1. 14. Condillac, 1715-80, the chief representative of eighteenth-century materialism in France.

14. Dr. Reid, 1710-96, founder of the so-called 'commonsense philosophy'. His system was developed by Dugald Stewart, his chief disciple (1758-1828).

PAGE 193 1.5. Sequacitas est potius. Bacon, Nov. Org. Aphor. 77 and 88 (ref. Biog. Lit. 1847).

II. in his preface to the new edition, i. e. to the edition of 1815. See O. W. p. 954, &c.

13. In an article contributed by me. No. 174 of Omniana. PAGE 194 1.5. Mr. Wordsworth's...objection. See O. W. p.957. 12. the co-presence of fancy with imagination. Cp. T.T., April 20, 1833:Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as, in like manner, imagination must have fancy. In fact, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.'

23. the words of Bishop Jeremy Taylor. Jeremy Taylor's Via Pacis, Sunday, The First Decad. 8 (ref. Biol. Lit. 1847).

CHAPTER XIII

PAGE 195 1. 1. O Adam, One Almighty is, &c. Par. Lost, v. 469 ff.

21. Sane si res, &c. The first sentence of this quotation comes, as is pointed out in Biog. Lit. 1847 (i. 288), from Leibnitz' De Ipsa Natura, &c., § 8 (Erdmann ed., Pt. i, p. 157); and the second from his Specimen Dynamicum, &c. (ed. 1695; not included in Erdmann's edition). In the original, imaginationi stands for phantasiae, formam for rerum.

39. Des Cartes, speaking as a naturalist. This paragraph (with the exception of the second sentence) is freely rendered from Schelling's Transc. Id. Sect. C. § 1). See Descartes' Monde: 'Give me extension and motion, and I will construct you the world.'

PAGE 196 1. 14. his essay on the introduction, &c. Versuch, den Begriff der negativen Grössen in die Weltweisheit einzuführen, 1763. See Werke, ed. Hartenstein, ii. 71, and especially § 1,

pp. 75-7.

17. as Berkeley did in his Analyst. 'The Analyst: or a Discourse addressed to an infidel Mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, principles, and inferences, of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced, than religious mysteries and points of faith.'

25. An imitation of the mathematical method. Cp. T. T., April 14, 1833, for a refutation of this method, of which Spinoza's is taken as an illustration.

PAGE 197 1. 23. the transcendental philosophy demands. Cp. note to p. 188, 1. 12.

PAGE 198 1. 7. By what instrument. Cp. Schelling's Organ der Transcendental-Philosophie; Transc. Id., p. 350 ff., and p. 369.

25. I received the following letter from a friend. The 'friend' was Coleridge himself. In a letter to his London publisher, Curtis, in 1816 (printed Lippincott's Mag., June 1874), Coleridge speaks of that letter addressed to myself as from a friend, at the close of the first volume of the Literary Life, which was written without taking my pen off the paper.'

PAGE 200 1. 1. If substance may be call'd. Milton, Par. Lost, ii. 669.

7. An orphic tale indeed. Slightly altered from 11. 45-6 of the Poem, To a Gentleman (W. Wordsworth), which in their original (MS.) form ran thus

An Orphic tale indeed,

A tale divine of high and passionate thoughts,

To their own music chaunted!

In the printed version 'song' was substituted for 'tale' (Poet. Works, pp. 176, 525).

PAGE 202 1. 8. as a repetition, &c. Sara Coleridge (Biog Lit. 1847, i. 297) records that she finds this sentence 'stroked out in a copy of the B. L. containing a few marginal notes of the author, which are printed in this edition'. She adds, 'I think it best to preserve the sentence while I mention the author's judgement upon it, especially as it has been quoted.' Probably Coleridge felt that the ideas which the sentence suggested were incongruous with the rest of the passage.

12. differing only in degree, &c. The distinction appears to be this. The primary imagination is the organ of common perception, the faculty by which we have experience of an actual world of phenomena. The secondary imagination is the same power in a heightened degree, which enables its possessor to see the world of our common experience in its real significance. And the creations of art are the embodiment of this vision. Cp. the opening words of Schelling's Introduction to his Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie (1799): 'Intelligence is productive in twofold wise, either blindly and unconsciously, or with freedom and consciousness; unconsciously productive in the perception of the universe, consciously in the creation of an ideal world.'

16. objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead. Thus Coleridge wrote in 1802 (Letters, p. 405) that to the Greeks, owing to their lack of imagination, 'all objects were dead, mere hollow statues'. Cp. Schelling, Abhandlungen, &c. (Werke, I. 367): 'An object is something dead and motionless which, itself incapable of action, is only the object (Gegenstand) of action.'

18. Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters. Cp. Wordsworth's Preface to Poems of 1815 (O. W., p. 957): 'Fancy does not require that the materials she makes use of should be susceptible to change in their constitution from her touch: and, where they admit of modification, it is enough for her purpose if it be slight, limited, and evanescent. Directly the reverse of these are the desires and demands of the Imagination. She recoils from everything but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite.'

28. the critical essay on the uses of the Supernatural. This essay, which was projected as early as 1801 (see Letters, p. 349: I shall, therefore, as I said, immediately publish my 'Christabel', with two essays annexed to it, on the 'Preternatural' and on 'Metre') was never written, or at least never completed. Another project of Coleridge's was to prefix to Sibylline Leaves an essay of forty pages on 'the Imaginative in poetry'; this, too, came to nothing (Life, p. 233). Coleridge appears to have lectured on the romantic use of the Supernatural in Lecture XI of the course of 1818 (see Prospectus, Lectures, p. 173).

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