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Coleridge's temperament was not heroic, and his correspondence as well as his conduct justified, in regard to much more than his nonage, the ingenious phrase of an American lady-essayist that he must have been "a very _beatable_ child." To a certain extent, however, the correspondence does also justify our adoption (see _Introduction_) of the charitable theory that enlargement of understanding brings about extension of pardon.