Coleridge identified and praised Saumarez for his " masterly force of reasoning, and the copiousness of induction, with which he has assailed, and ( in my opinion ) subverted the tyranny of the mechanic system in physiology; established not only the existence of final causes, but their necessity and efficiency to every system that merits the name of philosophical; and, substituting life and progressive power for the contradictory inert force, has a right to be known and remembered as the first instaurator of the dynamic philosophy in England . " ( " Biographia Literaria,"
