Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… affections for the formation of human character and social sympathy . People > Art and Literature Keywords Affection Benevolence Conversation Family Friendship Imagination Patriotism Science Sympathy Coleridge’s childhood: parental love … of the eighteenth century, he insisted, in his Bristol public lectures, on the need of nurturing a genuine feeling of benevolence through parenting, education and more generally social life. How indeed could the public sympathize with the plight of slaves if they were engrossed in selfish pursuits or blinded by mawkish sensibility? ‘True Benevolence is the only possible Basis of Patriotism, and I am afraid, that what with sensuality and Vanity, and yet more …
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