Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ Art and Literature ]
… Religious faith was and would remain fundamental for Coleridge’s idea of social amelioratio n. The Bristol lectures: on consumerism and selfishness In the fiery days of his lecturing in Bristol, he befriended a number of writers … through consumerism. As the nation was writing itself at the dawn 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? …
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