Left unfinished at his death and published afterwards, this essay finds Coleridge testing the definitions of life offered by the physiologists of his day and proposing his own. Life, he suggests, is a power of individuation working through nature, and he argues that the laws of nature can be truly grasped only by a mind that feels its harmonies.
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