DANIEL BROWN15 Robert Flint, "Theism," Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth edition (Edinburgh:
Adam and Charles Black, 1888), XXIII, 249.
16 Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious
People, ed. Russell Jackson (London: Ernest Benn, 1980), 87.
17 See G.S. Kirk, J.E. Raven and M. Schofield, The PreSocratic Philosophers,
second edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 158.
18 Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 3
vols. (Birmingham: Thomas Pearson, 1790), I, 8.
19 V. Regnault and J. Reiset, "Recherches chimiques sur la respiration des animaux
des diverse classes," Annalles de chimies et de physiques, 3me serie, 26 (1849),
299-519.
20 Gillian Beer, "Helmholtz, Tyndall, Gerard Manley Hopkins: Leaps of the
Prepared Imagination," in Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 264-6.
21 Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Tests of a Progressive Science" (MSS, Campion
Hall, D. IX 2, folio 3), in Hopkins, Journals and Papers, ed. G. Castorina (Bari:
Adriatica, 1974), 181.
22 Norman Lockyer, "What the Sun is Made of," Nineteenth Century 4 (1878), 79.
23 For a fuller discussion of this point see Daniel Brown, Hopkins's Idealism:
Philosophy, Physics, Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), 247-51.
24 Henri Poincaire, Science and Hypothesis, trans. W.J.G. (London: Walter Scott,
1905), 127.
25 Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Parmenides," in Hopkins, The Journals and Papers,
ed. Humphry House and Graham Storey (London: Oxford University Press,
1959), 12.7-30.
26 See Thomas Kuhn, "Energy Conservation as Simultaneous Discovery," Critical
Problems in the History of Science, ed. Marshall Clagett (Madison, WI:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1959), 321-56.
27 Coleridge, The Poems, 101.
28 Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Sermons and Devotional Writings, ed. Christo-
pher Devlin (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), 137.
29 For an account of Hopkins's unique prosodic terms, see his "Author's Preface on
Rhythm," reprinted in The Poetical Works, 115-17.
30 Fragment 219, in Kirk, Raven and Schofield, The PreSocratic Philosophers,
198.
31 Wordsworth, "Preface" (1802) to Lyrical Ballads, 95.
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