...gradual scale sublim'd To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual, give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul Reason receives,...is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. (5.472-490) Everything is in transition. The root metamorphoses into stalk, stalk into leaves, and...

...scale sublim'd, To vital spirits aspire: to animal: To intellectual! — give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding: whence the soul REASON receives....And reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive. PAR. LOST, bv2 "Sane si res corporales nil nisi materiale continerent, verissime dicerentur in fluxu...

...sense, Fancy and understanding, whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, oT intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.74 Coleridge zeigt sich in so hohem Maße fasziniert von der Unterscheidung zwischen Verstand...

..."flow'rs and thir fruit / Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd . . . give both life and sense, / Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul / Reason...and reason is her being, / Discursive, or Intuitive" (5.481-88). Raphael is being quite literal. Flowers work up to fruit, fruit nourishes the bodily senses,...

...Godlike and angelic intuitive reason. In book 5, Raphael tells Adam that the "Soul," receives reason, "and reason is her being, / Discursive, or Intuitive;...discourse / Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours" (487-90). Although Raphael says the difference is "but in degree," the degree is significant for Adam...

...aspire, to animal, To imellectual, give both life and sense, Fansie and understanding, whence the Soule Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive,...is ours. Differing but in degree, of kind the same. (V.479-90) Here the angel Raphael is answering Adam, who, taking his cue from the angel's eating eartbly...

...repeated throughout the Renaissance, as for instance by Milton's Raphael (Paradise Lost 5.486-90): whence the Soul Reason receives, and reason is her...being, Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest [man's], the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. The fact that Cusanus...

...dissimilarities/similarities of heaven and earth: the ontology of the mind is in reason, Raphael states, which is Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours,...is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. [PL, V, 11. 488-490] Intuitive in Milton's lexicon had within it the Latin intueor — to gaze at,...

...parents on the duality of good and evil. Explaining that reason is man's crowning faculty — that "Fancy and understanding, whence the Soul / Reason...and reason is her being, / Discursive, or Intuitive" (5: 486-88) — Raphael says that reason is important because it facilitates obedience: "If ye be found...

...lost touch with the intuitive aspect of discourse, to which Raphael refers in describing reason as Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours,...is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same. (PL 5.488-90) Innocent discourse ought, then, to be possible, but Raphael's idealized vision of the...