Every contemporary thinker, he argued, was indebted to these two "seminal minds". Yet Bentham, as the enduring voice of the Enlightenment, and Coleridge, as the chief English example of the Romantic reaction against it, held diametrically opposed views.
We know this because three of the decade's biggest mainstream yet seminal bands are back.
Modest yet seminal, the postcard pieces show the artists' progress from witty nostalgia and seemingly random scrapbooklike arrangements to increasingly striking fusions of form and meaning.
(In current science, "seminal" means "not yet digitized and, therefore, difficult to access").. Except it's not that easy, because there have been several times during my training and career that I've doubted the importance of my own work.
Instead he wanted to speak positively about the tune he rates as Perfecto's most pertinent part of the 90s house canon, Grace's seminal "Not Over Yet" — a hauntingly melancholic rush of endorphin-dripping peak-time mayhem, one of those tunes that'll always sound good, be it at 2am on an Ibizan terrace or 2pm in a traffic jam on the outskirts of Ipswich.
Yet this seminal collection of correspondence did not spring forth Athena-like, fully formed and fit for our examination.
This month, labour unions internationally should pause to remember the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, a grim milestone yet a seminal event in American labour history.
Surprisingly Aaron Rose's documentary Beautiful Losers has unearthed yet another seminal and well-overlooked period, but is it too early to start being sentimental?
In yet another seminal piece, The Trouble With Nigeria, he said, "In spite of conventional opinion, Nigeria has been less than fortunate in its leadership.
That means not dismissing speakers because they are in the early days of their research and have not yet read seminal works.
