“Each period of history has some topic of predominant interest, which indicates the prevailing spirit of the age. Certain words . . . appear in every page of contemporary annals, and then go out of use altogether . . .”
“Constitutions,” The North American Review (1821)
“The influence of false philosophy . . . is a malaria to the general intellect, a brooding fog over the whole mind of the age . . . diffusing everywhere a pestilential, stupefying power.”
Review of The Friend, by S. T. Coleridge, in The North American Review (1835)