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Updated: April 23, 2025

"Theology, ethics, politics and political history, ethnology, language, aesthetics, psychology, physics, and the allied sciences, biology, logic, mathematics, pathology, all these subjects," declares his biographer, "were thoughtfully studied by him, in at least their basial principles and metaphysics, and most were elaborately written of, as though for the divisions of some vast cyclop'dic work."

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - English Men of Letters: Coleridge

I further draw my conclusions from the fact, that all the hills on the country are much about the same height two or three hundred feet above the basial surface of the land; and I could only see the top of the hill like a hazy brown spot, contrasted in relief against the clear blue sky.

John Hanning Speke - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile