May 27. 1854.] 



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tated by me, so as to exist fit for the press, to my 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 Philo- 

 sophy) 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 — a?id doubt not — see, feel, the ne- 

 cessity 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 con- 

 ciliated, inferior minds smarting under a sense of in- 

 feriority, 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 Testa- 

 ments, 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-creating the fame of, and in discharging his 

 duty to, his great master. If, however, he cannot 

 afford the time, trouble, and cost of the under- 

 taking, I make him this public offer; I will, 

 myself, take the responsibility of the publication 

 of the above-mentioned four works, if he will en- 

 trust me with the MSS. 



The Editor will, I doubt not, be good enough 

 to forward to the learned Doctor a copy of the 

 Number in which this appeal is published. 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



MB. JUSTICE TALFOBBD AND DB. BEATTIE. 



(Vol. ix., p. 393.) 



There is so much similarity of character, in re- 

 spect of sympathy for the humbler position and 

 the well-being of others, between this lamented 

 judge and that of the professor who is depicted 

 by his biographer in the following extract, that I 

 hope you will agree with me in thinking it worthy 

 of being framed, and hung up as a companion- 

 sketch in your pages : 



" As a Professor, not his own class only, but the 

 whole body of students at the University, looked up 

 to him with esteem and veneration. The profound 

 piety of the public prayers, with which he began the 

 business of each day, arrested the attention of the 

 youngest and most thoughtless ; the excellence of his 

 moral character ; his gravity blended with cheerful- 

 ness, his strictness joined with gentleness, his favour to 

 the virtuous and diligent, and even the mildness of his 

 reproofs to those who were less attentive, rendered him 

 the object of their respect and admiration. Never was 

 more exact discipline preserved than in his class, nor 

 ever anywhere by more gentle means. His sway was 

 absolute, because it was founded in reason and affec- 

 tion. He never employed a harsh epithet in finding 

 fault with any of his pupils ; and when, instead of a 

 rebuke which they were conscious they deserved, they 

 met merely with a mild reproof, it was conveyed in 

 such a manner as to throw not only the delinquent, 

 but sometimes the whole class into tears. To gain his 

 favour was the highest ambition of every student ; and 

 the gentlest word of disapprobation was a punishment, 

 to avoid which, no exertion was deemed too much. 

 His great object was not merely to make his pupils 

 philosophers, but to render them good men, pious 

 Christians, loyal to their king, and attached to the 

 British constitution; pure in morals, happy in the 

 consciousness of a right conduct, and friends to all 

 mankind." 



This is the language of Dr. Beattie's biographer, 

 who knew him intimately. Cowper, the poet, 

 thus writes of him to the Rev. W. Unwin, from a 

 knowledge of his works : 



" I thanked you in my last for Johnson ; I now 

 thank you with more emphasis for Beattie — the most 

 agreeable and amiable writer I ever met with — the 

 only author I have seen whose critical and philoso- 

 phical researches are diversified and embellished by a 

 poetical imagination, that makes even the driest sub- 

 ject, and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books. 

 He is so much at his ease too, that his own character 

 appears in every page ; and, which is very rare, we see 

 not only the writer, but the man: and that man so 

 gentle, so well-tempered, so happy in his religion, and 

 so humane in his philosophy, that it is necessary to 

 love him, if one has any sense of what is lovely." — Life 

 of Dr. Beattie, by Sir William Forbes, Bart. 



J. M. 



Oxford. 



