“He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed…” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”

Warning against the subordination of truth to partisan or sectarian loyalty · Aids to Reflection

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21 October 1772–25 July 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, and died on 25 July 1834 at Highgate, near London. He occupies an unusual and commanding place in English literary history: he was at once one of the makers of Romantic poetry, a revolutionary critic of Shakespeare and poetic language, a…

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