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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a English lyrical poet, critic, and scholar, whose Musical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement. Though he's really merely famed today for his poetry, Col's contributions to the area of criticism and English language were several. For example, he not only create verbally the word 'selfless,' he brought in the word 'aesthetic' to the English language. In the following letter to his friend, Brabant, Coleridge talks about intricasies of life.
Monday Morning, march 13, 1815
Calne,
I missed the opportunity of sending the parcel on Saturday, by an Hour: and without affectation I did not think the contents of the inclosed Letter justified the expense of postage.'If you should have time to look over Dr Williams' larger work, in addition to what I have remarked in the slips of Paper, you will not fail to observe a sophism grounded on the admitted fact of the incapability to act aright in minds habitually vicious.
This, we all know, constitutes the difference between a crime and a vice: and makes the latter, even tho' comparatively trifling in each individual act, more hopeless and therefore of deeper Evil than any single Crime, however great: if only it be not such as involves as the condition of it's possibility, a prior vicious Habit.
This, I long ago observed, is the dire Curse of all habitual Immorality, that the impulses wax as the motives wane'like animals caught in the current of a Sea-vortex, (such as the Norwegian Maelstrohm) at first they rejoice in the pleasurable ease with which they are carried onward, with their consent yet without any effort of their will'as they swim, the servant gradually becomes the Tyrant, and finally they are sucked onward against their will: the more they see their danger, with the greater and more inevitable rapidity are they hurried toward and into it'.
Now from this fact Dr Williams deduces, that the inability to will good is no excuse for not doing so'in genere, and without reference to the origin of the inability'forgetting that our conscience never condemns us for what we cannot help unless this 'cannot in praesenti' is the result of a 'would not a preterity''all more Evil is either cum voluntate or de voluntate'. N.B. a voluntas causata is a contradiction, unless as causa sui.'Take Dr Williams's own instances'suppose the man stated as utterly incapable of loving God to have been created with this incapability, and you no more blame him than you blame a rattle snake for his Poison.'All Law human and divine acknowledges this distinction'as in the criminality of murder committed in drunkenness, and the impunibility of the same act committed in madness''.
Yours
S T Coleridge
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Monday Morning, march 13, 1815
Calne,
I missed the opportunity of sending the parcel on Saturday, by an Hour: and without affectation I did not think the contents of the inclosed Letter justified the expense of postage.'If you should have time to look over Dr Williams' larger work, in addition to what I have remarked in the slips of Paper, you will not fail to observe a sophism grounded on the admitted fact of the incapability to act aright in minds habitually vicious.
This, we all know, constitutes the difference between a crime and a vice: and makes the latter, even tho' comparatively trifling in each individual act, more hopeless and therefore of deeper Evil than any single Crime, however great: if only it be not such as involves as the condition of it's possibility, a prior vicious Habit.
This, I long ago observed, is the dire Curse of all habitual Immorality, that the impulses wax as the motives wane'like animals caught in the current of a Sea-vortex, (such as the Norwegian Maelstrohm) at first they rejoice in the pleasurable ease with which they are carried onward, with their consent yet without any effort of their will'as they swim, the servant gradually becomes the Tyrant, and finally they are sucked onward against their will: the more they see their danger, with the greater and more inevitable rapidity are they hurried toward and into it'.
Now from this fact Dr Williams deduces, that the inability to will good is no excuse for not doing so'in genere, and without reference to the origin of the inability'forgetting that our conscience never condemns us for what we cannot help unless this 'cannot in praesenti' is the result of a 'would not a preterity''all more Evil is either cum voluntate or de voluntate'. N.B. a voluntas causata is a contradiction, unless as causa sui.'Take Dr Williams's own instances'suppose the man stated as utterly incapable of loving God to have been created with this incapability, and you no more blame him than you blame a rattle snake for his Poison.'All Law human and divine acknowledges this distinction'as in the criminality of murder committed in drunkenness, and the impunibility of the same act committed in madness''.
Yours
S T Coleridge
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
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