ABSTRACT
The causes of such a change must be left for others to assign. What effect may have been produced by engrossing wars and commercial interests, by the revival of theological discussions and the increased importance of political questions; or again by the decay of coffee-houses, and the tax on pamphlets, or the revulsion produced by the fate of philosophical Paris, the reign of Decorum, and the growth of delicacy and apprehensive¬ ness of un-orthodoxy-how far these or other powers may have conduced to psychological and ethical apathy, I must leave for others to determine. Suffice it to say, that the universities, if
no better in this respect, were no worse than the nation at large. At the time when the university as a body was casting away the last pretence of examining in ‘philosophy,’ and even Locke and Paley had been discredited1, about 1835, there was a band of Coleridgians among the younger fellows of Trinity.
