'Thinkest thou there were no poets till Dan Chaucer?' asks our great Thomas; 'no heart burning with a thought, which it could not hold, and had no word for; and needed to shape and coin a word for--what thou callest a metaphor, trope, or the like? For every word we have, there was such a man and poet. The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor, and bold questionable originality. 'Thy very ATTENTION, does it not mean an _attentio_, a STRETCHING-TO?' Fancy that act of the mind which all were conscious of, which none had yet named--when this new 'poet' first felt bound and driven to name it! His questionable originality and new glowing metaphor was found adoptible, intelligible; and remains our name for it to this day.'[4] This seems to be a pet etymology of Carlyle, as he makes Professor Teufelsdroeckh give it to us also. Nor less of a poet was that Grecian man who first named this beauteous world--with its boundless unity in variety--the [Greek: kosmos],[5] the _order_, the _adornment_. But 'Alas, for the rarity Of Christian charity,' and 'Ah! the inanity Of frail humanity,' that first induced some luckless mortal to give to certain mysterious compounds the appellation of _cosmetics_! But here is an atonement; for even in our unmythical, unbelieving days, the god 'Terminus' is made to stand guard over every railway station! Again, how finely did the Roman call his heroism his 'virtus'--his _vir_tue--his _manliness_. With the Italians, however, it became quite a different thing; for his 'virtu' is none other than his love of the fine arts (these being to him the only subject of _manly_ occupation), a mere _objet de vertu_; and his _virtuoso_ has no more virtuousness or manliness about him than what appertains to being skilled in these same fine arts. With us, our 'virtue' is ... well, as soon as we can find out, we will tell you.