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
Sanitary Reform, 326.
Satanas, the true, that now is, 302.
Sauerteig, on Nature, 35;
our reverence for Death and for Life, 155;
the real Hell of the English, 182;
fashionable Wits, 189;
symbolic influences of Washing, 289.
Saxon Heptarchy, 17.
Schnuespel, the distinguished Novelist, 70.
Scotch Covenanters, 278.
Scotland, destitution in, 5.
Scott, Sir W., on the Apennines, 345.
Selfishness, 36, 41.
Silence, invaluable talent of, 120, 201, 298;
unsounded depth of, 249, 251;
two Silences of Eternity, 283.
Sliding-Scales, 223, 231.
See Corn-Laws.
Soldier, the, 321.
Sorrow, Worship of, 192.
Soul and conscience, need for some, 32, 98, 237, 287;
to save the 'expense of salt,' 62;
man has lost the _soul_ out of him, 172, 191.
Speech and jargon, difference between, 31;
invention of articulate speech, 161;
insincere speech, 189;
the Speaking Man wandering terribly from the point, 301.
See Silence.
Sphinx-riddle of Life, the, 10, 17;
_our_ Sphinx-riddle, 22.
Spinning Dervishes, 319.
Sumptuary Laws, 269.
Supply-and-demand, 232.
Tailor-art, symbolism of the, 267.
Taxes, where to lay the new, 304.
Tears, beautifulest kind of, 70.
Teufelsdroeckh on Democracy, 267.
Theory, the Man of, 199.
Thersites, 352.
Thirty-nine Articles, 280.
Tools and the Man, 308, 310.
Unanimity in folly, 179.
Unconscious, the, the alone complete, 145.
Universe, general High Court of the, 13, 31, 225;
a great unintelligible 'Perhaps,' 171;
_become_ the Humbug it was thought to be, 190;
a beggarly Universe, 234;
the Universe made by Law, 284.
Unseen, the, 255.
Unwisdom, infallible fruits of, 39.
Vacuum, and the serene Blue, 234.
Valets and Heroes, 32, 103, 185, 273, 360;
London valets dismissed annually to the streets, 342.
See Flunkies.
Wages, fair day's, for fair day's work, 24, 253.
Wallace, Scotland's debt to, 16.
Washing, symbolic influences of, 289.
Wealth, true, 345, 362.
Weimar, Duke of, 350.
Willelmus Conquaestor; 83, 241;
a man of most flashing discernment and strong lion-heart, 265;
not a vulturous Fighter, but a valorous Governor, 302.
Willelmus Sacrista, 74, 86, 91, 101, 115.
William Rufus; 302, 306;
the quarrel of Rufus and Anselm a great quarrel, 307.
Windbag, Sir Jabesh, 166, 275.
Wisdom, how, has to struggle with Folly, 91, 92, 97, 163, 264;
the higher the Wisdom the closer its kindred with Insanity, 256;
a _wisest path_ for every man, 271;
the Wise and Brave properly but one class, 300, 303, 366;
the life of the Gifted not a May-game, but a battle and stern
pilgrimage, 357.
Wits, fashionable, 189.
Women, born worshippers, 70.
Work, world-wide accumulated, 164;
endless hope in work, 183, 244;
all work noble, 192;
and eternal, 195;
the work he has done, an epitome of the Man, 198, 246;
Work is Worship, 250, 288;
all Work a making of Madness sane, 256.
See Labour.
Workhouses, in which no work can be done, 4.
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