Abstract
This paper announces no great discovery, but it contains fresh material of interest to students of Coleridge, of David Hartley and the philosophical tradition which he represents, and of Anglo-German literary relations. Our starting-point is lines 35-45 of Religious Musings, where Coleridge declares that the life and death of Christ freed the human soul from the bonds of idolatrous fear:Till of its nobler nature it 'gan feelDim recollections; and thence soared to Hope,Strong to believe whate'er of mystic goodThe Eternal dooms for His immortal sons.From Hope and firmer Faith to perfect LoveAttracted and absorbed: and centered thereGod only to behold, and know, and feel,Till by exclusive consciousness of GodAll self-annihilated it shall makeGod its Identity: God all in all!We and our Father one!1
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