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Title: Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Release Date: January 17, 2008 [Ebook #24346]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINTS TOWARDS THE FORMATION OF A MORE COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF LIFE.***

*Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory Of Life*

*by S. T. Coleridge*

*Edited by Seth B. Watson, M.D.*

Of St. John's College,

And Formerly One of the Physicians to the Hospital at Oxford

Magna sunt opera Domini exquisita in omnes voluntates ejus.

London: John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho

MDCCCXLVIII.

*C. and J. Adlard, Printers, Bartholomew Close*

CONTENTS

Preface.
Physiology Of Life.
The Nature Of Life.
Advertisements.
Footnotes

ADVERTISEMENT.

The Editor takes this opportunity of returning his best acknowledgments to
Sir JOHN STODDART, LL.D., to the Rev. JAMES GILLMAN, Incumbent of Trinity,
Lambeth, and to HENRY LEE, Esq., Assistant Surgeon to King's College
Hospital, for their great kindness, in regard to this publication.

_16, Norfolk Street, Park Lane._

PREFACE.

The accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life
by S. T. Coleridge. Everything that fell from the pen of that
extraordinary man bore latent, as well as more obvious indications of
genius, and of its inseparable concomitant--originality. To this general
remark the present Essay is far from forming an exception. No one can
peruse it, without admiring the author's comprehensive research and
profound meditation; but at the same time, partly from the exuberance of
his imagination, and partly from an apparent want of method (though, in
truth, he had a method of his own, by which he marshalled his thoughts in
an order perfectly intelligible to himself), a first perusal will, to ma