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Coleridge’s Literary Remains, Volume 4.

PART IV
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But neither can subjective insight supply the place of objective sight.

The certainty of the truth of a mathematical arch can never prove the fact of its existence.

I anticipate the answers; but know that they likewise proceed from the want of distinguishing between ideas, such as God, Eternity, the responsible Will, the Good, and the like,--the actuality of which is absolutely subjective, and includes both the relatively subjective and the relatively objective as higher or transcendant realities, which alone are the proper objects of faith, the great postulates of reason in order to its own admission of its own being,--the not distinguishing, I say, between these, and those positions which must be either matters of fact or fictions.

For such latter positions it is that miracles are required in lieu of experience.

A.'s testimony of experience supplies the want of the same experience for B.C.


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