Part I: the Birth of the Self
Notes PART I: THE BIRTH OF THE SELF CHAPTER ONE: QUERULOUS EGOTISM I. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (1785), The Works of Thomas Reid, 4 vols (Charleston, Mass., 1813-15) n and III, repro as I vol. (Cambridge, Mass., 1969) p. 179 (n.x). 2. Ibid., p. 138 (n.viii). 3. See Coleridge's essay 'On the Philosophic Import of the Words OBJECT and SUBJECT', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, x (1821) 246--52: 'The egoist, or ultra-idealist, affirms all objects to be subjective' - though Coleridge distinguishes here between Berkeley and those of his disciples who would hold that 'the objective subsists wholly and solely in the universal subject God' (p. 249). 4. For a parallel to the distinction made between 'egoism' and 'egotism', see Coleridge's distinction between 'Presumption' and 'Arrogance' (Friend [CCJ, I, 26--7). 5. SamuelJohnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1755) I, A-K (no p. nos). The citation of Addison is from The Spectator, ed. Donald F. Bond, 4 vols (Oxford, 1965) IV, 519-22 (no. 562). Further references are given after quotations in the text. Addison ascribes the word to 'the Gentlemen of Port-Royal . .. [who] banished the way of speaking in the First Person out of all their works, as arising from Vain-Glory and Self-Conceit' (p. 519). However, George Steiner says that 'it appears neither in the Logique nor in the Grammaire de Port Royal (translated into English in 1676)' - 'Contributions to a Dictionary of Critical Terms: "Egoism" and "Egotism" " Essays in Criticism, n (1952) 444-52 (p.
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