Produced by Paul Murray, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. I. ESSAY 2: CARLYLE London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 CONTENTS Mr. Carlyle's influence, and degree of its durability 135 His literary services 139 No label useful in characterising him 142 The poetic and the scientific temperaments 144 Rousseau and Mr. Carlyle 147 The poetic method of handling social questions 149 Impotent unrest, and his way of treating it 152 Founded on the purest individualism 154 Mr. Carlyle's historic position in the European reaction 157 Coleridge 159 Byron 161 Mr. Carlyle's victory over Byronism 163 Goethe 164 Mr. Carlyle's intensely practical turn, though veiled 166 His identification of material with moral order 169 And acceptance of the doctrine that the end justifies the means 170 Two sets of relations still regulated by pathological principle 172 Defect in Mr. Carlyle's discussion of them 174 His reticences 176 Equally hostile to metaphysics and to the extreme pretensions of the physicist 177 Natural Supernaturalism, and the measure of its truth 179 Two qualities flowing from his peculiar fatalism:-- (1) Contempt for excess of moral nicety 182 (2) Defect of sympathy with masses of men 186 Perils in his constant sense of the nothingness of life 188 Hero-worship, and its inadequateness 189 Theories of the dissolution of the old European order 193 Mr. Carlyle's view of the French Revolution 195 Of the Reformation and Protestantism 197 Inability to understand the political point of view 199 CARLYLE.