this inclination he, in the summer of 1817, found time to spend a few 

 months in Berlin to go through a private course of reading on philosophy 

 with Professor Solger, on whom, as well as on Ludwig Tieck whom he 

 had met in London, his amiable disposition and "noble eagerness for 

 knowledge" made a most favourable impression. Probably about this 

 time also he became acquainted with Coleridge, and contracted an admi- 

 ration of his philosophy ; soon afterwards, at any rate, a close inti- 

 macy grew up between them, which continued during the rest of Cole- 

 ridge's life. "Invariably he spent with Coleridge they two alone at 

 their work many hours of every week, in talk of pupil and master. And 

 so year after year,' he sat at the feet of his Gamaliel, getting more and 

 more insight of the teacher's beliefs and aspirations, till, in 1834, two 

 events occurred which determined the remaining course of his life. On 

 the one hand, his father died, and he became possessed of amply sufficient 

 means for his profession to be no longer needful to his maintenance. On 

 the other hand, Coleridge himself died. And the language of Coleridge's 

 last will and testament, together no doubt with verbal communications 

 which had passed, imposed on Mr. Green what he accepted as an obliga- 

 tion to devote, so far as necessary, the whole remaining strength and 

 earnestness of his life to the one task of systematizing, developing, and 

 establishing the doctrines of the Coleridgian philosophy." 



Influenced by these circumstances he withdrew from private practice and 

 resigned his professorship at King's College. Then, too, he gave up his 

 London house and retired to reside at Hadley ; and although he did not 

 relinquish his interest in the practical aspects of his profession or his care 

 for the amendment of its institutions, continuing still to take an active 

 share in the government of the College of Surgeons, and finally presiding 

 in the Medical Council, yet all such occupations and objects then became 

 secondary in his mind to the one object of his philosophical studies and the 

 fulfilment of the task he had undertaken. 



With this purpose Mr. Green entered upon the widest possible range of 

 study ; for he deemed it necessary to test the applicability of the Colerid- 

 gian system to all branches of methodized human knowledge. Accordingly, 

 in the twenty-seven years of life that remained to him, " Theology, Ethics, 

 Politics and Political History, Ethnology, Language, ^Esthetics, Psycho- 

 logy, Physics and the Allied Sciences, Biology, Logic, Mathematics, Pa- 

 thology all were thoughtfully studied by him in at least their basial 

 principles and metaphysics, and most were elaborately written of as though 

 for the divisions of some vast encyclopaedic work." 



Mr. Green took advantage of the public discourses which on more than 

 one occasion he was called on to deliver, to make known his opinions on 

 the relation of the Coleridgian philosophy to the study of science and the 

 learned professions. Of these there have appeared in print his Address oil 

 the opening of the Medical Session at King's College in 1832, the Hun- 

 terian Oration for 1840, entitled "Vital Dynamics," and that for 1847, 



