Excerpt from The Critical Principle of the Reconciliation of Opposites as Employed by Coleridge On the other hand, the purpose of such a study might be to expound some expression of the principle primarily as a product Of its own age. In this case we should keep to the historical method, assuming that the careful study of an idea as related to its own time may throw as much light on the significance of its later development as would a direct translation into modern termin ology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.