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First, there seems to be no direct evidence in the case. Secondly, it is well-nigh impossible to track Coleridge specifically in his borrowings, because of his subtly intermLxing materials from various sources and of his inter- penetrating them with something of his own. It appears he was only in general indebted to Priestly. 10 H. K. OINQERICII clinod tx) try to reduce all things to one principle, to a Unity — that is, to see the One in the many. And while in emphasizing the principle of Neces...sity he was harking hack to eighteenth-century ideas, in drawing u|>on the more ancient sources of the Bihle and Plato for the mystical principle of Unity, and attempting to express it in terms of the emotions and the imagination, he antici- pated the spirit of the nineteenth century, and so far became a prophet of what was to be. In the brief poem To A Friend, written also in 1794, Coleridge asserts that nothing can be gained by prayer — an extreme form of Necessitarianism, since it presupposes that God has literally predetermined every detail of life: He knows (the Spirit that in secret sees, Of whose omniscient and all-spreading Love Aught to implore were impotence of mind) — ^;^ Likewise in The Eolian Harp (1795) he conceives uni- versal life as automatous: ' ;v, y.
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