 To reiterate, it was to Burke, with his scepticism about reason, that constructors of an ideology of English conservatism appealed in the late nineteenth century; Coleridge’s philosophical prestige was waning, and his radical associations did not appeal to conservatives. Tories did not appreciate the larger role for progression in Coleridge’s thought, which is more rationalist than sceptically pragmatic; his affinities with German Idealism, whose incursions into English-speaking philosophy have been intermittent, were too strong.