This chapter scrutinizes both thinkers’ broad interpretations of the crisis of the composition of matter. Both viewed it as arising from the superimposition upon actuality of the conditions of possibility. Familiarly, Leibniz developed his concept of force in order to discover the individual at the point of action, where Coleridge analyzed consciousness in order to discover the dynamic relations between parts and wholes. Yet, in detailing the double role played by the divine influence upon an alienated nature, and in treating the relation between opposition and incorporation, Coleridge employs something like a Leibnizian concept of force.