Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryCarlyle, Thomas
Philosophy
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Carlyle, Thomas
Clothing and dress -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Didactic fiction; Germany -- Fiction; Heroes; Philosophers -- Fiction; Satire
Finally, we have to remember that in the whole tone and temper of his
teaching Carlyle is fundamentally the Puritan. The dogmas of
Puritanism he had indeed outgrown; but he never outgrew its ethics.
His thought was dominated and pervaded to the end, as Froude rightly
says, by the spirit of the creed he had dismissed. By reference to
this one fact we may account for much of his strength, and also for
most of his limitations in outlook and sympathy. Those limitations the
reader will not fail to notice for himself. But whatever allowance has
to be made for them, the strength remains. It is, perhaps, the secret
of Carlyle's imperishable greatness as a stimulating and uplifting
power that, beyond any other modern writer, he makes us feel with him
the supreme claims of the moral life, the meaning of our own
responsibilities, the essential spirituality of things, the
indestructible reality of religion. If he had thus a special message
for his own generation, that message has surely not lost any of its
value for ours. "Put Carlyle in your pocket," says Dr. Hal to Paul
Kelver on his starting out in life. "He is not all the voices, but he
is the best maker of men I know." And as a maker of men, Carlyle's
appeal to us is as great as ever.
WILLIAM HENRY HUDSON.
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(Supplement published in the People's Edition, 1873). _Wilhelm
Meister Apprenticeship_, 1824. _Elements of Geometry and
Trigonometry_ (from the French of Legendre), 1824. _German
Romance_, 1827. _Sartor Resartus_ (_Fraser's Mag._, 1833-4),
1835 (Boston), 1838. _French Revolution_, 1837, 1839.
_Critical and Miscellaneous Essays_, 1839, 1840, 1847, 1857.
(In these were reprinted Articles from _Edinburgh Review_,
_Foreign Review_, _Foreign Quarterly Review_, _Fraser's
Magazine_, _Westminster Review_, _New Monthly Magazine_,
_London and Westminster Review_, _Keepsake Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_, _Times_). _Chartism_,
1840. _Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History_, 1841.
_Past and Present_, 1843. _Oliver Cromwell's Letters and
Speeches: with Elucidations_, 1845. _Thirty-five Unpublished
Letters of Oliver Cromwell_, 1847 (Fraser). _Original
Discourses on the Negro Question_ (Fraser, 1849), 1853.
_Latter-day Pamphlets_, 1850. _Life of John Sterling_, 1851.
_History of Friedrich II. of Prussia_, 1858-65. _Inaugural
Address at Edinburgh_, 1866. _Shooting Niagara: and After?_
1867 (from "Macmillan"). _The Early Kings of Norway; also an
Essay on the Portraits of John Knox_, 1875.
There were also contributions to Brewster's _Edinburgh
Encyclopaedia_, vols. xiv., xv., and xvi.; to _New Edinburgh
Review_, 1821, 1822; _Fraser's Magazine_, 1830, 1831; _The
Times_, 19 June, 1844 ("Mazzini"); 28 November, 1876; 5 May,
1877; _Examiner_, 1848; _Spectator_, 1848.
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