Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Highgate, to Joseph Henry Green, 1818 September 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Reminding him to bring the "memoranda of the two or three last conversations" on Sunday, referring to the numbering of paragraphs and adding "A paper book confined to these conversations is advisable"; saying that he has been carefully re-reading Schelling's Einleitung zu seinem Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie and that he sees clearly "the rotten parts and the vacua of his foundation"; citing page numbers, quoting passages in German, and arguing fiercely with Schelling's statements on metaphysical questions; drawing connections between Schelling's arguments and the work of the early "Pagan and Christian Neo-platonists" as collected by Franciscus Patricius; writing "This however the Zoroastrian & Schellingian Oracles have in common -- that Polarity is asserted of the Absolute, of the Monad" and rejecting the idea that knowledge is a bi-polar system, "Transcendental Idealism as one Pole and Nature as the other"; saying that he himself believed this earlier and "adopted it in the metaphysical chapters of my Literary Life -- not aware, that this was putting the Candle horizontally and burning it at both ends"; describing how Schelling's own work developed in regards to this idea; refuting it: "Our first point therefore is -- steadily to deny and clearly to expose, the Polarity as existing or capable of existing in the unity of a perfect Will in the Godhead as ens realissimum"; arguing other points about experience; attacking Schelling's reasoning and conclusions at length; describing the discrepancies between his conclusions and those of the "Doctors of the Absolute"; sending his love to Anne Green.