The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1840. Abstract of James Gillman (review of), Memoirs of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London and Westminster Review. CUL-DAR91.33. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'. This was previously transcribed and published as part of Barrett's 'old & useless notes'.

Westminster Review March 1840

p. 267 says the great division amongst metaphysicians — the school of Lock, Bentham & Hartley & the school of Kant to Coleridge is regarding the sources of knowledge.— whether ~~can the there~~ "anything can be the object of our knowledge except our experience." — is this not almost a question whether we have any instincts, or rather the amount of our instincts — surely in animals according to usual definition, there is much knowledge without experience, so there may be in men — which the reviewer seems to doubt.

Reference:

'A' 1840. [Review of seven works of and about Coleridge] James Gillman, Memoirs of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London and Westminster Review 33(2) (March): 257-302.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)