y friend and enlightened
pupil, Mr. Green; and more than as much again would have been evolved
and delivered to paper, but that for the last six or eight months I
have been compelled to break off our weekly meeting," &c.

Vol. ii. p. 219. Editor:

"The prospectus of these lectures (viz. on Philosophy) is so full of
interest, and so well worthy of attention, that I subjoin it; trusting
that the Lectures themselves will soon be furnished by, or under the
auspices of Mr. Green, the most constant and the most assiduous of his
disciples. That gentleman will, I earnestly hope--_and doubt not_--see,
_feel_, the necessity of giving the whole of his great master's views,
opinions, and anticipations; not those alone in which he more entirely
sympathises, or those which may have more ready acceptance in the
present time. He will not shrink from the great, the _sacred duty_ he
has voluntarily undertaken, from any regards of prudence, still less
from that most hopeless form of fastidiousness, the wish to conciliate
those who are never to be conciliated, _inferior minds_ smarting under
a sense of inferiority, and the imputation _which they are conscious is
just_, that but for Him _they_ never could have been; that distorted,
dwarfed, changed, as are all his views and opinions, by passing
_athwart_ minds with which they could not assimilate, they are yet
almost the only things which give such minds a _status_ in literature."

How has Mr. Green discharged the duties of this solemn trust? Has he made
any attempt to give publicity to the _Logic_, the "great work" on
_Philosophy_, the work on the Old and New Testaments, to be called _The
Assertion of Religion_, or the _History of Philosophy_, all of which are in
his custody, and of which the first is, on the testimony of Coleridge
himself, a finished work? We know from the _Letters_, vol. ii. pp. 11.
150., that the _Logic_ is an essay in three parts, viz. the "Canon," the
"Criterion," and the "Organon;" of these the last only can be in any
respect identical with the _Treatise on Method_. There are other works of
Coleridge missing; to these I will call attention in a future Note. For the
four enumerated above Mr. Green is responsible. He has lately received the
homage of the University of Oxford in the shape of a D.C.L.; he can surely
afford a fraction of the few years that may still be allotted to him in
re-c