Coleridge, and the Moral Tendency of His Writings

It begins at length to be seen, that the theological mists of Coleridgism have been spreading themselves among us, not without effect. Our divinity professors seem to have thought that they are too much like tbe comets hair to have much influence of any kind; but have they not in this instance forgotten that the appropriate title of Satan, as the author of evil, is the prince of the poicer of the air 7M inute and invisible causesre often the most powerful. Changes have been occurring during the last ten or fifteen years, to which it is now very manifest these transcendental tenuities have beeo, in no small measure, causal. Unitarians have become pantheists. Calvinists have exchanged Calvin and Bd wards for modern divines of Germany. Satisfaction for sin has been discarded, and the doctrine of at-one-ment substituted for that of the atonement. Preaching, io certain cases, has passed from plain to dreamy and mystical, from shallow to incomprehensible, from commo Qplace to grea seeming profundity. Friends of our religious revivals have become distrustful, if not contemptuous, towards them. Friends of missions have acquired ssupersensuous indifference, if not disgusi;, towards them and almost every other cause of active benevolence.
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