a good example of what coleridge is talking about would be the shift from the ptolemaic, earth-centred universe, which accords with man's immediate experience, to the copernican, helio-centric one, which accords with reason. without the benefit of the organizing idea involving a higher cognitive faculty, science will tend to deal with secondary aspects of nature instead of the primary, essential properties. as richard saumarez, a contemporary of coleridge, and the creator of a dynamic understanding of physiology, wrote: