desirable object?”19 The great aim of philosophy, he repeated, was the largeness and generosity of mind that came from self-knowledge. To what particular faith it might bring a man, was not the question. It was the rejection of the “little unthinking contemptible self” that mattered, the independent awareness of a greater life. “To have genius is to live in the universal.”20 Coleridge took his bow on a smiling, gentle, English note. Let his listeners go away and read the author who brought philosophy and poetry into “delightful harmony” and reconciled “all the powers of our nature” – William
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