BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE,

WITH A

PRELIMINARY ESSAY,

BY JAMES MARSH, D. D.

FROM THE FOURTH LONDON EDITION, WITH THE AUTHOR'S
LAST CORRECTIONS,

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1840, by

CHAUNCEY GOODRICH,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court, for the District of Vermont.

On the difference in kind of Reason and the Understanding

On Instinct in connection with the Understanding

On Original Sin

On Redemption

On Baptism

Conclusion

Appendix.

Index

THIS MAKES, THAT WHATSOEVER HERE BEFALLS,

YOU IN THE REGION OF YOURSELF REMAIN

NEIGHB'RING ON HEAVEN; AND THAT NO FOREIGN LAND.

DANIEL.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE edition of the Aids to Reflection published here in 1829, experienced a more favorable reception with the public than could have been anticipated, and has been for some time exhausted.-The demand for the work, indeed, as well as for the other productions of its author, has been steadily increasing, and another edition would have been issued sooner, but for causes, which the editor could not control.Among these an expectation of the author's latest additions and corrections was not the least. These are at length received in the fourth London edition edited by H. N. Coleridge Esq., and though not very numerous or important are yet the last. The volume herewith offered to the American public is simply a reprint of that edition, containing, in addition to the work of the author, the Preliminary Essay published here in 1829, and some few notes by the editor.The appendix and notes added to the former American edition, consisting chiefly of selections from other works of the author then but little known here, are now less needed and are not therefore added to this. It is to be hoped, indeed, from the increasing demand for them, that we shall soon be furnished with a uniform edition of all the author's prose writings, when he will be found, by all who wish to understand his views, his own best commentator.

Of the character of his writings, and their influence upon the cause of truth in philosophy and religion, my views have been strongly expressed in the preliminary essay here republished, nor have I found cause to think of them with less interest in the more thorough knowledge, which ten years has enabled me to acquire, of his principles and their application. On the contrary, while a more extended acquaintance with the speculative and practical works of the most celebrated German writers has taught me to regard them very differently from those who sneer at their mysticism, and condemn,