igion) gone, its body (existing Institutions) going.
Utilitarianism, needing little farther preaching, is now in
full activity of Destruction.--Teufelsdroeckh would yield to
the Inevitable, accounting that the best: Assurance of a
fairer Living Society, arising, Phoenix-like, out of the ruins
of the old dead one. Before that Phoenix death-birth is
accomplished, long time, struggle, and suffering must
intervene (p. 174).
CHAP. VI. _Old Clothes_
Courtesy due from all men to all men: The Body of Man a
Revelation in the Flesh. Teufelsdroeckh's respect for Old
Clothes, as the 'Ghosts of Life.' Walk in Monmouth Street, and
meditations there (p. 179).
CHAP. VII. _Organic Filaments_
Destruction and Creation ever proceed together; and organic
filaments of the Future are even now spinning. Wonderful
connection of each man with all men; and of each generation
with all generations, before and after: Mankind is One.
Sequence and progress of all human work, whether of creation
or destruction, from age to age.--Titles, hitherto derived
from Fighting, must give way to others. Kings will remain and
their title. Political Freedom, not to be attained by any
mechanical contrivance. Hero-worship, perennial amongst men;
the cornerstone of polities in the Future. Organic filaments
of the New Religion: Newspapers and Literature. Let the
faithful soul take courage! (p. 183).
CHAP. VIII. _Natural Supernaturalism_
Deep significance of Miracles. Littleness of human Science:
Divine incomprehensibility of Nature. Custom blinds us to the
miraculousness of daily-recurring miracles; so do Names. Space
and Time, appearances only; forms of human Thought: A glimpse
of Immortality. How Space hides from us the wondrousness of
our commonest powers; and Time, the divinely miraculous course
of human history (p. 191).
CHAP. IX. _Circumspective_
Recapitulation. Editor congratulates the few British readers
who have accompanied Teufelsdroeckh through all his
speculations. The true use of the _Sartor Resartus_, to
exhibit the Wonder of daily life and common things; and to
show that all Forms are but Clothes, and temporary. Practical
inferences enough will follow (p. 201).
CHAP. X. _The Dandiacal Body_
The Dandy defined. The Dandiacal Sect a new modification of
the primeval superstition Self
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