The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE following synoptical view of the plan and contents of 'The
Friend" may prove useful to those who read the work for the
first time in the present edition.

Duty of the

GENERAL INTRODUCTION.

ESSAYS I-XVI. pp. 19–118.

ESSAY

I. Design of the work.

II. Ditto continued: necessity of attention and

thought, and distinction between them.

III. Style: author's hopes and expectations.

IV. Defence against charges of arrogance and presump-

tion.

V. Inexpediency of pious frauds: indifference of

truth and falsehood denied: objection from the

impossibility of conveying an adequate notion

answered.

VI. Conditions, under which right, though inadequate,
notions may be taught.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

Application of those conditions to publications

by the press-1. as between an individual

and his own conscience.

X. Ditto.-2. As between the publisher and the state.

free press.

XI. Law of libel: its anomalies and peculiar difficul-

ties.

XII. Despotism and insecurity without a free press;

Charlemagne and Bonaparte.

XIII. Only solution of the difficulties of the law of libel
compatible with a free press: toleration and
tolerance.

ESSAY

XIV. Clearness of conceptions in the understanding
essential to purity in the will: duty of commu
nicating knowledge.

XV. Right use of metaphysic reasoning: principles
founded in reason the sole root of prudence: dis-
tinctive powers of the human mind.

XVI. Supremacy of the reason: power given by acting
on principle: falsehood and unworthiness of

modern principles in taste, morals, and religion.

I. Voltaire and Erasmus: Rousseau and Luther.

II. Luther's visions in the Warteburg.

III. Theory to explain Luther's visions: apostrophe on

Thomas Wedgwood.

IV. Purpose of the Landing-Places: summary of the

preceding essays: use of the term "reason."

V. Do. continued: the reason and the understanding

distinguished: their mutual and necessary rela
tion: eduction of the conscience.

FIRST SECTION.

ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE.

Three systems
of political
justice, or

ESSAYS I-XVI. pp. 153-307.

I. System of Hobbes: fear and the force of custom:

confutation.

II. Do. continued: spirit of law: use of the phrase,
"original contract."

III. System of expedience and prudence-adopted:
system of the pure reason: motives for exposing

its falsehood.

IV. Statement of the system: Rousseau's "Social Con

tract," and Paine's "Rights of Man:" French

physiocratic philosophers: Cartwright: confu-

tation.

V. Cartwright; party-spirit: Jacobins and Anti-Jac-

obins: injudicious treatment of the former by

the latter.

ESSAY

VI. The author never a Jacobin: pantisocracy: peace
of Amiens, its character and good effects.

VII. Vulgar errors respecting taxes and taxation: true

principles: national debt.

VIII. Classes of political reformers: elective franchise.
IX. Catechism preparatory to examination of the prin-
ciples of the English Government: letter of
Decatur's, and anecdotes illustrative of principles.

X. Review of circumstances which led to the peace

of Amiens, and recommencement of the war,

especially with regard to the occupation of Malta,

-introductory to, and as commentary on, the

subject of international law.

XI.

XII.

XIII. Law of nations: cosmopolitism and nationality.

XIV. Law of nations continued: modern political econ-

omy: balance of European power: allegoric fable

on the seizure of the Danish fleet: defence of the

principle.

Interposed in vindication of freedom of thought,

and of the duty of searching out, and abiding by,

the truth: reason and faith: extracts from

Taylor and Bedell.

XV. Doctrine of general consequences as the best
criterion of the right or wrong of particular ac
tions not tenable in reason, or safe in practice.

XVI. Address delivered at Bristol in 1795.

true biography.
Essay II

pp. 326-332.

Miscellaneous.

Essays

III. and IV.
pp. 333-343.

II. Spirit of anecdote-mongering condemned: extract
from R. North's Life of Lord Keeper Guilford.

III. Fable of Irus (Bonaparte) and Toxaris: Christ

mas within, and out of doors in North Germany.

extract from Mr. Wordsworth's MS. poem.
IV. Rabbinical Tales.

SECOND SECTION.

ON THE GROUNDS OF MORALS AND RELIGION, AND THE
DISCIPLINE OF THE MIND REQUISITE FOR A TRUE
UNDERSTANDING OF THE SAME.

Introduction.
pp. 347-375.

Dignity and
necessity of
speculative phi-
losophy, and a
history of its
decline.

Essays I-III.
pp. 376-407.

Principles of
the Science of
Method.

Essays IV-XI.
pp. 408-472.

ESSAY

ESSAYS I-XI. pp. 347-472.

Letter from Mathetes (Professor Wilson and Mr.
A. Blair): internal and external difficulties to a
mind endeavoring to establish itself on sure
principles, moral and intellectual: answered by
The Friend (Mr. Wordsworth): advice and

caution.

I. Relation of morality and religion: pamphlets of
the age of Charles I.: extract: sanity of true
genius: distinction between genius, talent, sense,
and cleverness: relative character of the national
mind of Germany, England, and France.
II. Self-interest and conscience: ethics not founded on
utility: honor: universal assent a presumption
of truth: ground of belief in miracles: true
Christian enthusiasm: mysteries of faith not to
be explained by mere human analogies: Taylor's
latitudinarianism.

III. Greek sophists: their character and principles:
separation of ethics from religion: the author's
convictions of the nature and results of the his-
tory of the last century and a half.

IV. Method, in the will and in the understanding:
illustrated from Shakspeare: founded on obser-
vation of relations of things: want and excess of
generalization: necessity of a mental initiative:
definition of method.

V. Two kinds of relations in which objects of mind
may be considered: 1. Law: synthetic and
analytic process: Plato's view.

VI. 2. Theory: method in the fine arts intermediate:
poetry and music: mental initiative in botany:
history and estimate of the science: in chemistry.
VII. Intention of Plato's writings: zoology and John
Hunter: theory can not supply the principle of
method: nor hypothesis: necessity of an idea:
contrast between the state of science as to elec-
tricity and magnetism: law of polarity.
VIII. True character of Plato: Aristotle: unpleasant
side of Bacon's character: Hooke: Kepler: Tycho
Brahe: reconcilement of the Platonic and Bacon-
ian methods.

IX. Investigation of the Baconian method: shown to
be essentially one with the Platonic, but in a dif
ferent direction: method the guiding light in
education and cultivation.

(continued.)

life and charac-
ter of Sir Alex-
ander Ball, and
of the circum-
stances of the
English occupa-
tion of Malta.
Essays II-VI.
pp. 479-522.

ESSAY

X. Existence of a self-organizing purpose in nature

and man: illustrated: operation of this idea in

the history of mankind: patriarchal state: cor-

rupted into a polytheism: early Greeks: their

idolatry checked by the physical theology of the

mysteries: portion which they represented of the

education of man: their discoveries in the region

of the pure intellect and success in the arts of

imagination contrasted with their crude essays

in the investigation of physical laws and phænom-

ena: Romans: Hebrews the mid-point of a line,

towards which the Greeks as the ideal, and the
Romans as the material, pole were approximat-

ing,-Christianity the synthesis.

XI. Trade and Literature essential to a nation: conse-
quences of the commercial spirit preponderating:
difference of ultimate aims in men and nations:
evidence of objective reality in man himself:
nature and man, union and difference: mere
being in its essence: the idea, whence origina-
ted: revelation: God: the material world made
for man: universal laws for the whole tempered
by particular laws for the individual in nature
and man: causation: invisible nexus: ground of
union: difference between the reason and the
understanding: what they can respectively
achieve: method of the will: religious faith.

THIRD LANDING-PLACE.

ESSAYS I–VI. pp. 475–522.

I. Fortune favors fools: different meanings of the

proverb: luck has a real existence in human af-

fairs: how: invidious use of the phrase.

II. Impression left by Sir A. B. on the author: state

of Malta: corruption.

III. Personal memoir of Sir A. B.: anecdotes of him.

IV. Ball and Nelson: Nelson's reliance on him: Ball
at the battle of the Nile: explosion of the ship
L'Orient: anecdote.

V. Ball's habits of mind: conduct during the siege of
Valetta behavior of English to foreigners:
Ball's decisive conduct with the court of Naples:
unjust and unwise treatment of the Maltese by
the British government.

VI. Ball's popularity in Malta: jealousy of him in the
government: discussion of the importance of
Malta to this country.

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