H Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life is a work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The work is edited by Seth B. Watson, M.D. The contents list a preface, Physiology Of Life and The Nature Of Life. The preface says the accompanying pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life.

A passage says the word Nature, in any intelligible sense, means nothing but that method and order by which the Almighty regulates the common course of things. The text says Mr. Coleridge combats a philosophy, and that the supposed atoms, he says, are mere abstractions of the mind, and Life is not a thing, the result of atomic arrangement or action, but is itself an act, or process. Various definitions of Life are refuted in the text, such as that it is the sum of all the functions by which death is resisted, or that it depends on the faculty of nutrition, or of anti-putrescence.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher, co-founder with Wordsworth of the Romantic movement. Author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' he was also a profound literary theorist.