Chapter XV: The Beginning of the End, 1833-1834

CCLVI. Joseph Henry Green, April 8, 1833 767 CCLVII. Mrs. Aders [1833] 769 CCLVIII. John Sterling, October 30, 1833 771 CCLIX. Miss Eliza Nixon, July 9, 1834 773 CCLX. Adam Steinmetz Kennard, July 13, 1834. (Early Recollections, 1837, ii. 193) 775 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Samuel Taylor Coleridge, aged sixty-one. From a pencil-sketch by J. Kayser, of Kaserworth, now in the possession of the editor Frontispiece Mrs. Wilson. From a pencil-sketch by Edward Nash, 1816, now in the possession of the editor 460 Hartley Coleridge, aged ten. After a painting by Sir David Wilkie, R. A., now in the possession of Sir George Beaumont, Bart. 510 The Room in Mr. Gillmanâ?Ts House, The Grove, Highgate, which served as study and bedroom for the poet, and in which he died. From a water-colour drawing now in the possession of Miss Christabel Coleridge, of Cheyne, Torquay 616 Derwent Coleridge, aged nineteen. From a pencil-sketch by Edward Nash, now in the possession of the editor 704 The Reverend George Coleridge. From an oil painting now in the possession of the Right Honourable Lord Coleridge 746 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, aged (about) fifty-six. From an oil painting (taken at the Argyll Baths), now in the possession of the editor 758

AIDS TO REFLECTION AND THE CONFESSIONS OF AN INQUIRING SPIRIT. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. CONTENTS. PAGE Aids to Reflection: Author's Original Title-page, 1825 ix Mr. H. N. Coleridge's Advertisement to the Fourth Edition xi Author's Address to the Reader xiii Author's Preface and Advertisement xv Dr. Marsh's Preliminary Essay xxiii Introductory Aphorisms 1 On Sensibility 22 Prudential Aphorisms 27 Moral and Religious Aphorisms 35 Elements of Religious Philosophy 88 Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion 96 Aphorisms on that which is indeed Spiritual Religion 102 On the Difference in kind of Reason and the Understanding (after Aphorism VIII.) 143 On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX.) 162 On Original Sin (Aphorism X.) 172 Paley not a Moralist (Aphorism XII.) 196 On Redemption (in Comment on Aphorism XIX.) 223 On Baptism 242 Conclusion 258 Appendix A: Summary of the Argument on Reason and the Understanding 277 Appendix B: On Instinct; by Prof. J. H. Green 278 Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit: Letters on the Inspiration of the Scriptures 285 The Pentad of Operative Christianity 288 Questions as to the Divine Origin of the Bible 289