al sections of the _Biographia_ but in his aesthetic lectures,
and further in the cosmic speculations of the posthumous _Theory of
Life_. On the first score he makes but an equivocal acknowledgment,
claiming to have thought on Schelling's lines before reading him; but it
has been shown by Hamilton and Ferrier that besides transcribing much
from Schelling without avowal he silently appropriated the learning of
Maass on philosophical history. In other directions he laid under
tribute Herder and Lessing; yet all the while he cast severe imputations
of plagiarism upon Hume and others. His own plagiarisms were doubtless
facilitated by the physiological effects of opium.

Inasmuch as he finally followed in philosophy the mainly poetical or
theosophic movement of Schelling, which satisfied neither the logical
needs appealed to by Hegel nor the new demand for naturalistic
induction, Coleridge, after arousing a great amount of philosophic
interest in his own country in the second quarter of the century, has
ceased to "make a school." Thus his significance in intellectual history
remains that of a great stimulator. He undoubtedly did much to deepen
and liberalize Christian thought in England, his influence being
specially marked in the school of F. D. Maurice, and in the lives of men
like John Sterling. And even his many borrowings from the German were
assimilated with a rare power of development, which bore fruit not only
in a widening of the field of English philosophy but in the larger
scientific thought of a later generation. (J. M. RO.)

Of Coleridge's four children, two (Hartley and Sara) are separately
noticed. His second child, Berkeley, died when a baby. The third,
Derwent (1800-1883), a distinguished scholar and author, was master of
Helston school, Cornwall (1825-1841), first principal of St Mark's
College, Chelsea (1841-1864), and rector of Hanwell (1864-1880); and
his daughter Christabel (b. 1843) and son Ernest Hartley (b. 1846)
both became well known in the world of letters, the former as a
novelist, the latter as a biographer and critic.

After Coleridge's death several of his works were edited by his
nephew, Henry Nelson Coleridge, the husband of Sara, the poet's only
daughter. In 1847 Sara Coleridge published the _Biographia Literaria_,
enriched with annotations and biographical supplement from her own
pen. Three volumes of political writings, entitled _Essays on his Own
Times_,