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
Misery, all, the fruit of unwisdom, 34;
strength, that has not yet found its way, 357.
Monks, ancient and modern, 55;
the old monks not without secularity, 76, 84;
insurrection of monks, 125.
Morality, 203.
Morrison's Pill, 29;
men's 'Religion' a kind of, 282.
Moses and the Dwellers by the Dead-Sea, 190.
Mungo Park, 262.
National Misery the result of national misguidance, 34.
Nationality, 159.
Nature, not dead, but alive and miraculous, 36.
Negro Slavery and White Nomadism, 342.
New Testament, 236, 359.
Nobleness, meaning of, 224.
Obedience, 110.
Oblivion a still resting-place, 166.
Organising, what may be done by, 323, 336.
Originality, 162.
See Path-making.
Over-production, charge of, 213, 253.
Pandarus Dogdraught, 305, 315.
Parchments, venerable and not venerable, 216, 225.
Parliament and the Courts of Westminster, 12, 319;
a Parliament starting with a lie in its mouth, 314.
Past, Present and Future, 47, 298, 310, 331.
Path-making, 158.
Pedantry, 61.
Permanence the first condition of all fruitfulness, 341, 344.
Peterloo, 21.
Pilate, 17.
Pity, 70.
Plugson of Undershot, 235, 257.
Pope, the old, with stuffed devotional rump, 173.
Posterity, appealing to, 279.
See Fame.
Potter's Wheel, significance of the, 245.
Practice, the Man of, 199.
Prayer, faithful unspoken, 284;
praying _by working_, 288.
Premier, what a wise, might do, 321.
See Windbag.
Priest, the noble, 300.
Puffery, all-deafening blast of, 177.
Puritanism, giving way to decent Formalism, 209.
Puseyism, 146, 364.
Quacks and sham-heroes, 33, 103, 177, 185, 277.
Quaker's, a manufacturing, care for his workmen, 343, 361.
Ready-Reckoner, strange state of our, 204.
Reform, like Charity, must begin at home, 43.
Religion, a great heaven-high Unquestionability, 76, 84, 145;
our religion gone, 171;
all true Work, Religion, 250;
foolish craving for a 'New Religion,' 280, 287;
inner light of a man's soul, 281.
See Prayer, Worship.
Richard I. See Coeur-de-Lion.
Robert de Montfort, 136.
Rokewood, Mr., 55.
Roman Conquests, 201.
Rome, a tour to, in the twelfth century, 88.
Russians, the silent, worth something, 198, 201;
the Czar of Russia, 225.
Saints and Sinners, 68.
Sam-Slicks, vagrant, 346.
Samson, Monk, teacher of the Novices, 77;
his parentage, dream, and dedication to St. Edmund, 87;
sent to Rome, 88;
home-tribulations, 90;
silence and weariness, 93;
though a servant of servants, his words all tell, 97;
elected Abbot, 102;
arrival at St. Edmundsbury, 105;
getting to work, 108, 112;
his favour for fit men, 117;
not unmindful of kindness, 118;
a just clear-hearted man, 119;
hospitality and stoicism, 121;
troubles and triumphs, 124;
in Parliament, 131;
practical devotion, 139;
Bishop of Ely outwitted, 141;
King Richard withstood, 143;
zealous interest in the Crusades, 144;
a glimpse of the Body of St. Edmund, 149;
the culminating point of his existence, 155.
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