the strength and the pleasure; and this should be exhibited by the artist

either inclusively in his figure, or else out of it, and beside it to act by

way of supplement and contrast. And with a view to this, remark the

seeming identity of body and mind in infants, and thence the loveliness

of the former; the commencing separation in boyhood, and the struggle

of equilibrium in youth: thence onward the body is first simply

indifferent; then demanding the translucency of the mind not to be

worse than indifferent; and finally all that presents the body as body

becoming almost of an excremental nature. [2]

Note 1. Delivered as a lecture in 1818. [back]

Note 2. The discussion, like so much of Coleridge's work, seems to

have been left incomplete. [back]