NOTES ON COLERIDGE'S AIDS TO REFLECTION

(2nd Edition, 1831)Introductory Aphorisms, No. xii., p. 7.: "Tertullian had good reason for his assertation, that the simplest Christian (if indeed a Christian) knows more than the most accomplished irreligious philosopher." The passage referred to is in the Apology, c. 46: "Deum quilibet opifex Christianus et invenit et ostendit et exinde totum, quod in Deo quæritur, re quoque assignat; licet Plato affirmet factitatorem universitatis neque inveniri facilem et inventum enarrari in omnes difficilem." Note to Aphorism xxxi., p. 30.: "To which he [Plato] may possibly have referred in his phrase […