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/).

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Paul H. Barrett.Text prepared by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1

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'.

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Westminster Review March 1840

p. 267 says that great division amongst metaphysicians ─ the school of Locke, Bentham & Hartley, & the school of Kant to Coleridge in regarding the sources of knowledge.─ whether ~~can the there~~ "anything can be ~~any~~ 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 review seems to doubt.

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