"What I am, it does not become me to say; but what thousands
are, who despise them, and even pride themselves on their
ignorance, I see, and tremble."

is a quotation from Schiller (_Werke_, vol. i., p. 414. 1838)

"AN DIE MUSE.

"Was ich ohne dich wäre, ich weiss es nicht; aber mir
grauet,
Seh'ich, was ohne dich Hundert und Tausende sind."

In Appendix (B.) to Coleridge's first _Lay Sermon_ (p. 276.), we read,--

"An age or nation may become free from certain prejudices,
beliefs, and superstitious practices, in two ways. It may have
really risen above them; or it may have fallen below them, and
become too bad for their continuance."

Though not given as a quotation, this passage is no doubt borrowed from
Baader, as quoted by Archdeacon Hare in a note to his _Sermons on the
Mission of the Comforter_,--

"Nations, like individuals, may get free and rid of certain
prejudices, beliefs, customs, abuses, &c., in two ways. They may
really have risen above them, or they may have fallen below them
and become too bad for them."

In a volume of tracts (Class mark Gg. 5. 27.) in St. John's College
Library, Cambridge, is a copy of Nicolas Carr's edition of the