Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Philosophy
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Life (Biology)
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FOOTNOTES
1 Mr. Abernethy.
2 Experiment, as an organ of reason, not less distinguished from the
blind or dreaming industry of the alchemists, than it was
successfully opposed to the barren subtleties of the schoolmen.
3 Whose own mind, however, was not comprehended in the vortex; where
Kepler erred it was in the other extreme.
4 But still less would I avail myself of its acknowledged
inappropriateness to the purposes of physiology, in order to cast a
self-complacent sneer on the soul itself, and on all who believe in
its existence. First, because in my opinion it would be impertinent;
secondly, because it would be imprudent and injurious to the
character of my profession; and, lastly, because it would argue an
irreverence to the feelings of mankind, which I deem scarcely
compatible with a good heart, and a degree of arrogance and
presumption which I have never found, except in company with a
corrupt taste and a shallow capacity.
5 Vide Lawrence’s Lecture.
6 Joh. Bapt. a Vico, Neapol. Reg. eloq. Professor, de antiquissima
Itallorum sapientia ex lingua Latina originibus aruendâ: libri tres.
Neap., 1710.
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