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same truths to tell with prophets and apostles ; in all the Reason, or 

 Logos, within them, is the revealer of God's Eternal Truth. So it was, 

 too, that Coleridge at last possessed intense reverence for the wisdom of 

 the past. In it he recognized the instincts and intuitions of humanity. 

 Adulterating ingredients, no doubt, he saw in it all ; but yet, beneath 

 all, a germ of eternal truth : the Spirit guiding into all truth. The 

 Catholic dogmas, he felt, were to be interpreted in this way ; and always 

 recognizing the truth which underlay them, he would have had all men 

 to pay reverence and respect to the substructure, however much they 

 might repudiate the false glitter and meretricious ornament of the super- 

 structure. 



These grand ideas, by filtering through the minds of many who sat 

 at his feet, have influenced widely and deeply the religious thought of 

 our time. Chiefly interpreted, no doubt, by Hare and Maurice and 

 Kingsley, they have had a far wider extension ; and it is plain, have 

 modified the ideas of those who would be most loud in disclaiming their 

 influence ; and have, we may hope, paved the way for a higher, purer, 

 more enlightened, more loving Church of the future. It may be dan- 

 gerous to say more on this subject ; but let us be just to Coleridge at all 

 events, and accord him all that we believe to be his most distinctive 

 praise. 



For four years he was almost confined to his own room; four years, 

 no doubt, somewhat dreamily and weakly spent, but still with intellectual 

 life beneath the bodily weakness, making itself known and felt. Troubled 

 nights and reslless days came to him, caused by changes in the structure 

 of his heart; and on July 25th, 1834, this great, and yet troubled spirit, 

 passed quietly away. No one is better able to speak of him and his 

 character, than his daughter ; and she says in a letter to a friend : " In 

 his death we mourn not only the removal of one closely united to us by 

 nature and intimacy, but the extinction of a light which made earth more 

 spiritual, and heaven in some sort more visible to our apprehension." 



