Aids to Reflection [Christmas Summary Classics]

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference

• Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• ISBN: 1230000036218
• Publisher: Zhingoora Books
• Publication: December 3, 2012
• Language: English

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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Aids to Reflection
This famous book, of which the full title is "Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion," was published in 1825, nine years before the author's death. Its influence on thoughtful minds was very great, and many of the first divines of that period owed to it their profoundest religious ideas. It has been said that the fame of Coleridge (see LIVES AND LETTERS) as a philosophic thinker is not so great as it was during the twenty years immediately after his death; but one imagines that this statement merely means that not so many people now read Coleridge as did fifty years ago. The book, at any rate, has not yet been written which exposes a fallacy in his argument or demolishes his system. It should be remembered that this poet and searching thinker, to whom men like Wordsworth and Haslitt listened with reverence, was for some time in his life a Unitarian, and won to faith in the divinity of Christ by the use of his reason.