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Title: Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I
Essay 2: Carlyle
Author: John Morley
Release Date: March 22, 2007 [EBook #20878]
Language: English
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CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES
BY
JOHN MORLEY
VOL. I.
ESSAY 2: CARLYLE
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904
CONTENTS
Mr. Carlyle's influence, and degree of its durability 135
His literary services 139
No label useful in characterising him 142
The poetic and the scientific temperaments 144
Rousseau and Mr. Carlyle 147
The poetic method of handling social questions 149
Impotent unrest, and his way of treating it 152
Founded on the purest individualism 154
Mr. Carlyle's historic position in the European reaction 157
Coleridge 159
Byron 161
Mr. Carlyle's victory over Byronism 163
Goethe 164
Mr. Carlyle's intensely practical turn, though veiled 166
His identification of material with moral order 169
And acceptance of the doctrine that the end justifies the means 170
Two sets of relations still regulated by pathological principle 172
Defect in Mr. Carlyle's discussion of them 174
His reticences 176
Equally hostile to metaphysics and to the extreme pretensions
of the physicist
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