Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• I, the first person. See Person.
• I am, the, [196], [360].
• Idealism, Materialism, &c., [268].
• Ideas, [277], [284].
• Idols, [xi].
  • Worldly troubles are idols, [77].
• Imagination, wisest use of the, [54].
• Imitators and Imitation, [75].
• Immortality opposed to Death, [206].
• Imprudence, [79].
• Incomprehensible, the, [227].
  • Incomprehensibility no obstacle to belief, [xxxvi].
• Inconsistency, [59].
• Indians, the, Hearne on, [237].
• Indolent, the busy indolent, and the lazy indolent, their requirements in books, [151].
• Infallibility, [257], [296], [316].
• Infants, Baptism of. See Baptism.
• —— the Presentation of, [252].
• Infidel arguments against the Bible, [316].
• Infidelity, and how to treat it, [77].
• —— and Jacobinism, [253].
• Infinite, the, and the Finite, [54].
• 'Inquiring Spirit, Confessions of an.' See 'Confessions,'&c.
• Inquisition, the, and the Bible, [313].
• Insanity, [342].
• Insects, [74].
  • Vital power of, &c., [163].
• Inspiration of every word in the Bible, the doctrine argued against, [296], [309].
  • See also Bible, Scriptures, &c.
• Instinct, [74], [160], [162], [279].
  • Its nature, [280].
  • Hüber's bees and, [281].
  • Prof. J. H. Green, on, [278].
  • How it is identical with understanding; and how diverse from reason, ib.
  • Maternal instinct, or storgè, [283].
  • The instinct of anticipation in all animated nature, [237].
  • Right use of the term, [279].
• Instruction, early, [156].
• Instruction and entertainment, [xviii].
• Insufflation, Roman Catholic, [227].
• Interpretation. See Bible, &c.
• Irrational, the, [228].
• Irritability, [74].
• Irving, Edward. His view of baptism answered, [255].

• Jacobinism and Infidelity, [253].
• Jael, the morality of, [311].
• James, Epistle (i. 21), [61]; (i. 25), [13], [202]; (i. 26, 27), [12], [13].
• Jebb, Dr., [49].
• Jesus. See Christ.
• —— "the name of", [115].
• Jewish faith, articles of the, [130], [132].
• —— Church and people, the, [250].
  • Their canonical books, [298].
• —— history and sacred records, [358].
• Jews and Christians, foundations of their religious beliefs, [238].
  • See also Rabbinical.
• —— the, and the early Christians, [215], [238].
• Jews, Coleridge's attempt to convert one, [337].
• Job, the Book of, [307].
• John (i. 2), [13].
• —— (i. 18), [212].
• —— (iii. 13), [211].
• —— (v. 39), [246].
• —— (vi.) [212].
• —— (1 v. 20), [4].
• John the Baptist, [242].
• John, St., the Evangelist, [217].
  • His Gospel, [242], [258], [350].
  • His writings, [211].
  • See also, for passages, John (i. 18), &c.
• Jonah, the Book of, parabolical, [174].

• Kant, [269].
• Keble on Hooker quoted, [353].
• Kepler, [269].
• Knowledge, [36], [65], [81].
  • The sort required for Christianity, [5], [7].
  • Purity requisite for its attainment, [64].
  • Knowledge not the ultimate end of religious pursuits, [65].
  • Knowledge, if right, not enough to do right, [81].

• Lactantius quoted, [xiv].
• Language, [160].
  • Coleridge's precision of, [lxix].
  • Strictures of, [127].
• Lavington, Bishop, [47].
• Law, [12], [40], [270].
• —— and Religion, [186].
• —— the word, St. Paul's and St. John's use of, [202].
• —— the, and Christ, [201].
• —— the, of Moses, and the Christian dispensation, [240].
• —— W., his mysticism, 'Serious Call,' &c., [258]-9.
• Learned class, the, [198].
• Leibnitz, [269].
• Leighton, Archbishop, extracts from, [2], [3], [17], [27], [29], [35], [36], [37], [39], [50], [52], [54], [57], [59], [60], [61], [62], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [70], [72], [74], [75], [76], [77], [79], [80], [81], [82], [84], [85], [104], [106], [137], [200], [202], [203], [242].
• —— remarks on, [xviii], [94], [102].
  • His sublime view of religion and morality, [xxi].
• Lessing, [232].
• Liars for God, [308].
• Lies, Falstaff's, [310].
• Life, [4].
• —— prospects, the fear of injuring, [68].
• Literary bravos and buffoons, their attacks upon Coleridge, [258].
• 'Literary Remains,' Coleridge's, [188], [314], [340].
• Liturgy, spots on the, [257]. See also Prayer Book, &c.
• Locke, his philosophy and that of Coleridge and Bacon, [lviii], [lxvi].
  • His opinions and Fatalism, [lv].
  • Dangerous tendency of his views, [xii], [xlix].
• —— and Aristotle, [44].
• Logic and Grammar—parts of speech, [117].
• Logodædaly and logomachy, [81].
• Lord's Prayer, the, [132].
• Love, [24].
• —— and Christian love, [58].
• —— and the will, [25].
• "Love, the Family of," Dutch religious sect, [95].
• Lovers' quarrels, [67].
• Luther, [210], [213], [254].
  • Extract from, [201].
  • His view of Freewill, [105].

• Madness, [269].
  • The passage of wickedness into madness, [342].
• Magee, Dr., on Redemption, [274].
• Maimonides, [232].
• Man fleeing from God, [83].
• —— reason in, [345]. Man a thinking animal, [xix].
  • See also Reason, &c.
• —— and the brutes and lower creatures, [2], [75], [341], [343].
  • See also Reason, Instinct, &c.
• Maniac, [25], [178].
• Manifested in the flesh, [217].
• Mant and D'Oyly on Baptism, [254].
• Marat, [253].
• Marinus quoted, [xiv].
• Marriage, [25].
  • And the marriage service, [353].
• Marsh, Dr., [107].
• —— Dr. James, of Vermont, U.S., and his Essay on the 'Aids,' [xii], [xxiii].
• Materialism, [91].
  • And Idealism, &c., [265].
• Materialists, the, [24].
  • Avowed and unavowed, [264].
• Maternal instinct, [283].
• Mathematical atheists, the, of the French Revolution, [121].
• Meekness, [79].
• Mendelssohn, Moses, [232].
• Merit, [85].
  • Men of little merit, [69].
• Metanoia, [86].
• Metaphor, [xi], [214].
  • The same in the Gospels, [136].
• Metaphors in Scripture interpretation, [200].
• Metaphysical opinions and the doctrines of Revelation, [xliv].
• Metaphysics, [45], [171].
• —— the objections to, [lxxi].
• Methodist fanatics, [210].
• Michal, the sons of, David's treatment of them, [186].
• Milton on reason and the understanding, [lix].
• Milton's word arbitrement = free agency, [344].
• Mind, the human, [2], [80].
  • Differences in, [149].
• "Mind of the flesh," St. Paul's, [346].
• Minimifidianism, [142], [244].
  • See also Fidianism.
• Ministry, the Christian, [2], [35], [68], [96].
  • Worldly views in, [68].
  • Students for it addressed, [xvi].
  • An unlearned ministry incapable, [98].
• Miracles, those worked by Christ, [231].
• Miraculous, the term, [64].
• Mirth, [52].
• Moral Law, the, [130], [132].
• —— Philosophy, [199].
• —— Science, [89]. The same and Political Economy,196.
• —— and Religious Aphorisms, [35].
• Moralist, Paley not a, [196].
• Morality, [12], [14], [20], [62], [131].
  • Of the Bible, [311].
  • Morality less than religion, [xvii].
  • Religious morality, [45], [85].
  • Transition from morality to religion, [63].
• —— and the people, [196].
  • And prudence, [xvii], [xxxi], [19], [64], [131], [273].
• Morality and religion, [xvii].
  • See also Religion and morality.
• Morals, Expedience is the anarchy of, [90].
• More, Dr. H., [94].
  • Extracts from, [95], [96], [98].
• Moses, [62].
  • The books of, [299].
• —— Paul and Christ, [241].
• Motannabbi, his Fort-philosophy, [237].
• Motives, [xlix], [39], [58].
• Mysteries of Religion, [xviii], [158].
• Mysticism, [227], [258], [260], [261].
• Mythology and Christianity, [188].

• Name, the word, [152].
  • As applied to God and Christ in Scripture, [351].
• Natural and Spiritual, the terms, Coleridge's view of, [xxx].
• —— Theology, [272].
• Naturalist, a, [238].
• Nature, [44].
  • The fairy-tale of, [41].
  • The term, &c., [166].
  • The Religion of (so called), [158].
  • The worship of, [271].
• —— and Art, [167].
• —— and Free-will, [xxxii], [xlix], [42], [44], [167], [176].
• —— and religion, [57].
• Necessitarians, creed of the, [lii].
• New England Calvinism, [105].
• ——, religion in, [lxvi].
• New Jerusalemites, and Coleridge's attempt to convert one, [337].
• New Testament, the misinterpretations in, [xlviii].
  • The authorized version defective, [12].
• —— and the Church, [246].
• Newton, Pope's epigram on, [230].
• Newtonian and Cartesian philosophies, the, [268].
• Newtonian system, the, [156].
• Nicholas, H., the Familist, [95].
• Novelty, [258].
  • Its use, [1].
  • The fault of, [230].
  • The passion for novelty in thought, [72].

• Obedience, total, impossible, [183].
• Oersted, [265].
• Old man, the, St. Paul's use of the term, [194].
• Order, [255].
• Origin of Sin, controversy on, in the Christian Spectator, 1829, [liv].
• Originating an act, [176]-7.
• Original, the word, [175], [178].
• Original Sin, [172].
  • Apologue illustrating the bearings of Christianity on the fact and doctrine, [192].
  • Original sin not hereditary sin, [200].
  • Augustine and Original sin, [247].
• —— and Redemption, [206].
  • Coleridge's view of, [xxx].
• Orthodoxy, [78].
  • Popular orthodoxy, [309].

• Pagan philosophy, [xvii].
  • See also Philosophy, the old, &c.
• Pædo-Baptists, [244].
• Paley, Dr., [239], [273], [274], [275].
  • Not a moralist, [196].
  • His principle of General Consequences, [181].
  • His 'Evidences,' [232].
  • On man and the brutes, [lx].
  • A passage in his Moral and Political Philosophy criticized, [230].
• Papists, Baxter's censures of the, [141].
• Paradox, [5].
• Parr, Dr., on Paley, [230].
• Passion no friend to Truth, [79].
• Paul, St, [16], [212].
  • His use of the names Adam, and the old man, [194].
  • The word "election" in his writings, [113].
  • His Epistles to the Romans, and to the Hebrews, [238].
  • His use of the word Law, [202].
  • On the remission of sin, [213], [215].
  • His view of schism, [254].
  • His writings, [211].
  • For St. Paul's writings, see also under Romans, &c.
• Paul, Moses, and Christ, [241].
• Pay and expiation, the words, [216].
• Peace (or Reconcilement), [50].
• Peasants' War, the, and other revolutionary outbreaks, [253].
• Pelagianism, [57], [247], [252].
• Pentad, the, of Operative Christianity, [288].
• Pentateuch, the, [299].
  • See also Bible, &c.
• People, the, and the ministry, [6].
• —— the, and morality, [196].
• Perfectionists, [98].
• Person, the first—No I possible without a Thou, [343].
• Peter Martyr, [227].
• Peter, St., Epistle II., [298].
• Petrarch quoted, [21].
• Pharaoh, destruction of, [356].
• Pharisees and Sadducees, the, [133].
• Philosophic Paganism, modern, [128].
• Philosophy,
  • prejudice against in religious communities, [xxxiii].
  • Modern philosophy, [xlvii], [lx], [156].
  • The Scottish, [xlix], [lxv].
• —— and religion, necessity of combining their study, [xxxix].
• —— the old, and Christianity, [84].
• —— and the Gospel, [122], [124].
• Phrenology, [100].
• Physico-Theology, [272].
• Pity, [23], [34].
• Plato, the misinterpreters of, [92].
• —— and Aristotle, ideas of God, [167].
• Platonic philosophy, [lxvii].
  • Platonic view of the Spiritual, [20].
• Pleasure, [30].
• Plotinus on the soul, [53].
• Political Economy and Moral Science, [196].
• Polypi, &c., development in, [58].
• Pomponatus, and his De Fato, [159].
• Pope's epigram on Newton, [230].
• Popery and the Bible, [313].
• —— See Roman Catholicism, &c.
• Popular Theology, [274].
• Power, [xlix].
• —— and authority, distinction between, [358].
• Prayer, [350], [361].
  • The philosophy of, [257].
• —— The Lord's, [132].
• —— A Nightly, [340], [360].
• —— Book of Common, Notes on, [257], [337], [338], [350].
  • Proposed alterations in, [352], et sq.
• Preacher, the, [288].
• Preaching, [61].
  • Baptism and preaching, [242].
• Pride, [69], [76].
• —— and humility, [75].
• Priestley, Dr., [139], [239], [270].
• Principle, [40].
• Prometheus, [189], [270].
• Promise, the ingrafted word of, [237].
• Proselytizing, Coleridge's attempts at, [337].
• Prospects in life, fear of injuring, [68].
• Protestantism and schism, [316].
• Prothesis, Thesis, &c., forms of Logic, [118], [343].
• Prudence, [11], [17], [18], [22], [33], [34], [131].
  • Prudence distinct from Morality, [xvii], [131].
• —— and Morality, Coleridge's views of their relations, [xxxi], [64].
• Prudential Aphorisms, [27].
• Psalms, the, [302]. See also Prayer Book.
• Psilanthropism, [139], [160].
• Psilanthropists, [138].
• Ptolemaic system, the, [156].
• Public, pampering the, [152].
• Public Good, the: "We want public souls," [98].
• Pulpit,
  • insincerity in the, [318].
  • Pulpit "routiniers," [308].
• Purgatory, [206].
  • And the Bible, [313].
• Purity requisite to the attainment of knowledge, [64].

• Quarterly Review, the, on Baptism and Regeneration, [226].

• Rabbinical and other dotages on the Scriptures, [194].
• Railers at religion, [78].
• Ransom, the word, [216].
• Rational Christian, the, [274].
• Rational interpretation of the Scriptures, [xxxviii].
• —— and reason, the words in relation to religion, [xxxiii], [8].
• Readers and authors, [xv], [xviii].
• Reason
  • In man, [137].
  • Neglect of studies belonging to it, [xvii].
  • Discernment by, [4].
  • Reason not the faculty of finite, [345].
  • God is reason, [255].
  • Practical reason, [97], [115], [164], [277], [283].
  • Right reason and Faith, [228], [229].
  • Reason is super-individual, [346].
• —— and its antagonists in man, [345].
  • And the conscience, [229], [345].
  • Reason and rational, use of the words in relation to religion, [xxxiii].
  • Reason and the Spirit, [96]; and Spiritual religion, [xxxvi].
• —— the, and the Understanding, [xi], [135], [142], [143], [171].
  • Their difference in kind, [143], [148].
  • Coleridge's "twenty years" of contention for this distinction, [160].
  • The distinction a key to Coleridge's system, [xxxii].
  • Prof. J. H. Green's view, [278].
  • Milton's view, [lix].
  • Summary of the scheme of the argument, [277].
  • [For this argument see also Understanding, &c., the 'Aids' throughout, passim, and the 'Confessions' in part.]
• Reason and the will, [344].
  • See also Will.
• Reasoning in religion, rule for, [108].
• Reconcilement, [50].
• Reconciliation, [61], [215].
  • The word and its connection with money-changing, [215].
• Redeemer, the, [13].
  • See also Christ, &c
• —— "every man his own," [87].
• Redemption, [143], [200], [257], [293].
  • Coleridge's view of, [208].
  • The doctrine of, [xiii], [106], [195], [223].
  • Dr. Magee on, [274]. Its mystery, [208].
• —— and Baptism, [209].
• —— and corruption, [185].
• —— and Original Sin, [194], [206].
• Reflection, [xxv], [xxvi], [1], [2], [4].
  • Art of, [xiii], [xix].
  • Need of, [xiii], [xix].
• Reformation, the, Bacon and, [lxiv].
• Reformed churches, the creed of the, [292].
  • Religion in New England, [lxvi].
  • Railers at religion, [78];
    • and satirical critics of it, [45].
  • Speculative systems of religion, [126].
  • The spiritual in religion, [20], [61].
  • The three kinds of religion corresponding with the faculties in man, [21].
  • Where religion is, [196].
  • See also Spiritual religion, &c.
• Reformers, the, of the 16th and 17th centuries, [lvi], [lvii].
• Regeneration, [200], [217].
• —— and Baptism, [136].
  • The doctrine that "Regeneration is only Baptism" refuted, [226].
• Regret and remorse, [105], [342].
• Religion, [29], [156], [158].
  • Advantages of, [32].
  • Coleridge's views on, [xxx], [xxxii].
  • The mysteries of religion, [xviii], [158].
  • Natural religion, [120], [157].
  • The "Religion of Nature," &c., [158].
  • Rule for reasoning in religion, [108].
  • The word in James (i. 26, 27), [12].
• —— and Law, [190].
• —— and Morality, [xvii], [xxi], [273].
  • 'Lay Sermons' referred to, [273].
• —— and Nature, [57].
• —— and philosophy, necessity of combining their study, [xxxiii], [xxxix].
• —— and science, [162].
• 'Religion, Assertion of,' &c., Coleridge's unpublished work, [103].
• Religious amalgamation, [67].
• —— Aphorisms, Moral and, [35].
• —— autobiography, [49].
• —— communities, disputes in, [67].
  • Their prejudice against philosophy, [xxxiii].
• Religious contemplation, [124].
• —— controversies, [67].
• —— experiences, [291].
• —— morality, [45].
• —— philosophy, elements of, [88].
• —— professors, detraction among, [70].
• —— pursuits, [65].
• —— teaching of the time, and of that of Baxter and Howe, [lvii].
• —— toleration, the limitations of, [139].
• —— truths and speculative science, [205].
• —— unions, [67].
• Remorse, [82].
  • Remorse and regret, [105], [342].
• Repentance, [85].
  • Jeremy Taylor's work on, [207], [213].
• —— and forgiveness, [86].
• Reprobation, doctrine of, [103].
• Responsibility, [342].
• Resurrection, death and the, [204].
• Revelation, the doctrines of, and metaphysical opinions, [xliv].
• Revolution, the Godless, [199].
• Revolutionary, Geryon, the, [253].
• Ridicule, [47].
• Right, a knowledge of the right not enough for doing right, [81].
• —— misuse of the word, [181].
• —— and wrong, [81], [181].
• Righteousness, imputed, [73].
• —— and virtue, [6].
• Rites and ceremonies, [12], [358].
• Robespierre, [253].
• Robinson, Wall, and Baxter on Baptism, [247].
• Robinson's 'History of Baptism,' [246].
• Roman Catholic, and Catholic, the terms, [141].
• —— Catholic Church. See also Romish Church, &c.
• —— Catholics, [141].
  • Coleridge's attempts to convert, [337].
  • Their doctrine of the punishment of sin, [213].
• —— Catholicism, [239], Is inseparable
  • from Popery, [200].
  • Insufflation and extreme unction in, [227].
• Romans, Epistles, quoted, &c. [xxxix], [39], [42], [43], [113], [174].
• Romish Church, the, [199], [246].
  • See also Roman Catholic, &c.
• —— hierarchy, source of their power, [213].
• —— superstition respecting the Eucharist, [353].