The Statesman's Manual by S.T. Coleridge

The comprehension, impartiality, and far-sightedness of Reason, (the Legislative of our nature) taken singly and exclusively, becomes mere visionariness in intellect, and indolence or hard-heartedness in morals. It is the science of cosmopolitism without country, of philanthropy without neighbourliness or consanguinity, in short, of all the impostures of that philosophy of the French revolution, which would sacrifice each to the shadowy idol of All. For Jacobinism is monstrum hybridum, made up in part of despotism, and in part , of abstract reason misapplied to objects that belong entirely to experience and the understanding.

(from The Statesman's Manual by S.T. Coleridge publ 1816)

As far as the French Revolution was concerned every day was commination day. The Reason as Coleridge understood it was the abstracting generalising power and the Understanding was the discovery of its principles as embodied in the particular. Now the elevation of the Reason as the supreme arbiter of the life of man, in short in the cliche of the moment, evidence based reasoning, leads to a confounding of the creative spirit which goes beyond what is presently construed as evidence. It is the individual anomaly that moves us forward to a new vision.

In Singerism the plight of the Chinese peasant ought to move us as much as the local indigent, because both are persons worthy of our attention. To feel more for one than the other is a prejudice that ought to be discarded. Animal suffering is suffering and we are guilty of speciesism if we balk at such assimilation.

I see that we are back to whiggery again. S.T.C. and W.B.Y. would not have agreed on the further reaches of the uncanny and he would likely have dismissed as mere visionariness A Vision. He writes:

Yet this again yet even Religion itself, if ever in its too exclusive devotion to the specific and individual it neglects to interpose the contemplation of the universal changes its being into Superstition, and becoming more and more earthly and servile, as more and more estranged from the one in all, goes wandering at length with its pack of amulets, bead-rolls, periapts, fetisches, and the like pedlary , on pilgrimages to Loretto, Mecca, or the temple of Jaggernaut, arm in arm with sensuality on one side and self-torture on the other, followed by a motly group of friars, pardoners, faquirs, gamesters, flagellants, mountebanks, and harlots.