In terms of faith, Coleridge felt that it was a complete self-commitment, and made up the whole of hope, love, and other virtues. ... He also felt that an act of faith was analogous to an act of a poet because both bring entire soul of man into realm of activity (Barth, Symbolic, 12-13). ... Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the divine plan is to chasten man for his moral evil and return him to path of virtue. Involving trial and error, man slowly learns the relationship between virtue and happiness, with vice and pains being means for ma...

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