Nineteenth Century Studies

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Excerpt from Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew ArnoldWriting in 1838, soon after the deaths of Bentham and Coleridge, J. S. Mill described these two writers as 'the two great seminal minds of England in their age', and claimed that' there is hardly to be found in England an individual of any importance in the world of mind who. Did not first learn to think from one Of these two. 1 In another essay (1840) Mill tried to indicate the quality of their in¿uence: 'by Bentham' he wrote, 'beyond all others, men have been led to ask themselves in regard to any ancient or received opinion, Is it true? And by Coleridge, What Is the meaning of It. P '2 In Bentham the spirit Of the eighteenth century lived on taking his stand, like any Brobdingnagian sage or visitor froin China, 'outside the received Opinion', he 'surveyed it as an entire stranger to it'. Coleridge, on the other hand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.