the chief spokesman for romantic philosophy and the 'science of science' or epistemology, was samuel taylor coleridge. an anonymous article (written by john stuart mill) published in the westminster review of 1840 noted that "the romantic philosophy of coleridge pervaded the minds and hearts of a significant portion of british intellectuals." coleridge held that bacon's view was that the secrets of nature, the inner essence that bacon termed "natura naturans", required a different "mode of knowing" from the intellect, but required a knowing that was "participative in its essence" and "above the ordinary human consciousness, a super-conscious mind." here coleridge refers to bacon's idea of the 'lumen siccum' - dry light or platonic idea that exists before and above any observation of nature, indeed directs and influences it - an organizing idea.