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
Hugo, Abbot, old, feeble and improvident, 73;
his death, 78;
difficulties with Monk Samson, 90.
Ideal, the, in the Real, 73, 237.
Idleness alone without hope, 183;
Idle Aristocracy, 216, 222, 252, 348.
Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, 47, 161, 309.
Ignorance, our Period of, 299.
Iliad, the, 163.
Impossible, 24, 28;
without _soul_, all things impossible, 186;
every noble
work at first 'impossible,' 247, 255, 364.
Independence, 353.
Industry, Captains of, 240, 258, 335, 355, 362;
our Industrial Ages, 309.
Infancy and Maturity, 159.
Injustice the one thing intolerable, 262.
Insanity, strange affinity of Wisdom and, 256.
Insurrections, 19.
Invention, 161.
Irish Widow, an, _proving_ her sisterhood, 186, 262.
Isolation the sum-total of wretchedness, 338.
Jew debts and creditors, 74, 113, 115;
Benedict and the tooth-forceps, 225.
Jocelm of Brakelond, 51;
his Boswellean Notebook seven centuries old, 52.
John, King, 57, 131.
Justice, the basis of all things, 12, 24, 138, 205;
what is Justice, 17, 266;
a just judge, 119;
venerable Wigged-Justice began in Wild-Justice, 164;
God's Justice alone strong, 238, 358.
See Parchments.
Kilkenny Cats, 319.
King, the true and the sham, 103, 110, 273;
the Ablest Man, the virtual King, 276;
again _be_ a King, 310;
the proper name of all Kings, Minister, Servant, 320.
'Know thyself,' 244.
Labour, to be King of this Earth, 212;
Organisation of, 243, 260, 318;
perennial nobleness and sacredness in, 244.
See Chivalry, Work.
_Laissez-faire_, 229;
general breakdown of, 232, 233.
Lakenheath eels, 81.
Landlords, past and present, 67;
Landowning, 215;
whom the Land belongs to, 218;
the mission of a Land Aristocracy a _sacred_ one, 305, 348.
Laughter, 189.
Law, gradual growth of, 163;
the Maker's Laws, 284.
See Chancery.
Legislative interference, 326.
Liberty, true meaning of, 263, 269.
Life, the, to come, 208, 286;
Life never a May-game for men, 261, 357.
Literature, noble and ignoble, 129.
Liturgies, 162.
Liverpool, 83.
Loadstar, a, in the eternal sky, 15.
Logical futilities, 199, 202.
Machinery, exporting, 228.
Mahomet, 351.
Mammon, not a god at all, 85;
Gospel of Mammonism, 181, 236;
Working Mammonism better than Idle Dilettantism, 183, 188, 257;
getting itself strangled, 228;
fall of Mammon, 334, 362;
Mammon like Fire, 355.
See Economics.
Man the Missionary of Order, 114, 285;
sacredness of the human Body, 155;
a born Soldier, 238;
a God-created Soul, 285.
See Great Man.
Manchester Insurrection, 19;
poor Manchester operatives, 22, 62;
Manchester in the twelfth century, 83;
even sooty Manchester built on the infinite Abysses, 283.
Marriage-contracts, 342, 344.
Master, eye of the, 114.
Meat-jack, a disconsolate, 195.
Methodism, 76, 84, 146.
Midas, 3, 9.
Mights and Rights, 238.
Millocracy, our giant, 175.
Milton's 'wages,' 24.
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