Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.Carlyle, Thomas
Philosophy
Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
Carlyle, Thomas
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social problems
Editor's, the purpose to himself full of hope, 46;
his stipulated work, 331.
Edmund, St., 65;
on the rim of the horizon, 136;
opening the Shrine of, 148.
Edmundsbury, St., 60.
Education Service, an effective, possible, 328.
Election, the one important social act, 94;
electoral winnowing-machines, 98, 106.
Emigration, 329.
England, full of wealth, yet dying of inanition, 3;
the guidance of, not wise enough, 34, 335;
England of the year '1200,' 57, 62, 79, 139, 303;
disappearance of our English Forests, 122;
this England, the practical summary of English Heroism, 165;
now nearly eaten up by puffery and unfaithfulness, 180;
real Hell of the English, 182;
of all Nations, the stupidest in speech, the wisest in action, 197, 211;
unspoken sadness, 200;
conservatism, 203;
Berserkir rage, 205;
a Future, wide as the world, if we have heart and heroism for it, 330.
Essex, Henry Earl of, 134, 281.
Experience, 361.
Fact and Semblance, 17; and Fiction, 59.
Fame, the thing called, 161, 166.
See Posterity.
Fighting, all, an ascertainment who has the right to rule over
whom, 17, 302;
murderous Fighting become a 'glorious Chivalry,' 237.
Flunkies, whom no Hero-King _can_ reign over, 43.
See Valets.
Forests, disappearance of, 122.
Formulas, the very skin and muscular tissue of Man's Life, 157, 160.
Fornham, battle of, 65.
French Donothing Aristocracy, 223;
the French Revolution a voice of God, though in wrath, 286, 337.
Funerals, Cockney, 155.
Future, the, already extant though unseen, 308;
England's Future, 330.
See Past.
Geese, with feathers and without, 187.
Genius, what meant by, 107, 359.
Gideon's fleece, 247.
Gifted, the, 355.
God, forgetting, 171;
God's Justice, 238, 284;
belief in God, 275;
proceeding 'to invent God,' 281.
Goethe, 292, 350;
his _Mason-Lodge_, 293.
Gossip preferable to pedantry, 63;
seven centuries off, 92, 97.
Governing, art of, 110, 112;
Lazy Governments, 319;
every Government the symbol of its People, 333.
Great Man, a, 249.
See Wisdom.
Gurth, born thrall of Cedric the Saxon, 263, 303, 310.
Habit, the deepest law of human nature, 158.
Hampden's coffin opened, 149.
Happy, pitiful pretensions to be, 192;
happiness of getting one's work done, 195.
Hat, perambulating, seven-feet high, 177.
Healing Art, the, a sacred one, 5.
Heaven and Hell, our notions of, 181.
Heaven's Chancery, 236, 242.
Hell, real, of a man, 85;
Hell of the English, 182, 334.
Henry II. choosing an Abbot, 99;
his Welsh wars, 135;
on his way to the Crusades, 144;
our brave Plantagenet Henry, 302.
Henry VIII., 123.
Hercules, 225, 255.
Heroic Promised-Land, 45.
Hero-worship, 41, 70, 150, 153, 282, 305, 352;
what Heroes have done for us, 165, 179.
History, Philosophical, 297, 298.
Horses, able and willing to work, 28;
Goethe's thoughts about the Horse, 197.
Howel Davies, the Bucanier, 239.
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