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of the fast-spreading spirit of the
new democracy. But more than this. He insists that the one hope for our
distracted world of to-day lies in the strength and wisdom of the few,
not in the organised unwisdom of the many. The masses of the people
can never be safely trusted to solve for themselves the intricate
problems of their own welfare. They need to be guided, disciplined, at
times even driven, by those great leaders of men, who see more deeply
than they see into the reality of things, and know much better than they
can ever know what is good for them, and how that good is to be
attained. Political machinery, in which the modern world had come to
put so much faith, is only another delusion of a mechanical age. The
burden of history is for him always the need of the Able Man. "I say,
Find me the true Könning, King, Able Man, and he has a divine right
over me." Carlyle thus throws down the gauntlet at once to the
scientific and to the democratic movements of his time. His
pronounced antagonism to the modern spirit in these two most
important manifestations must be kept steadily in mind in our study of
him.
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.
Life of Schiller (Lond. Mag., 1823-4), 1825, 1845. (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 Encyclopædia,
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.
First Collected Edition of Works, 1857-58 (16 vols.).
Reminiscences, ed. by Froude in 1881, but superseded by C. E.
Norton's edition of 1887. Norton has also edited two volumes of Letters
(1888), and Carlyle's correspondence with Emerson (1883) and with
Goethe (1887). Other volumes of correspondence are New Letters
(1904), Carlyle Intime (1907), Love Letters (1909), Letters to Mill,
Sterling, and Browning (1923), all ed. by Alexander Carlyle. See also
Last Words of Carlyle, 1892.
The fullest Life is that by D. A. Wilson. The first of six volumes
appeared in 1923, and by 1934 only one remained to be published.

CONTENTS
SARTOR RESARTUS
BOOK I
CHAP. PAGE I. PRELIMINARY 1 II. EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES
5 III. REMINISCENCES 9 IV. CHARACTERISTICS 20 V. THE
WORLD IN CLOTHES 25 VI. APRONS 31 VII.
MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL 34 VIII. THE WORLD OUT OF
CLOTHES 37 IX. ADAMITISM 43 X. PURE REASON 47 XI.
PROSPECTIVE 52
BOOK II
I. GENESIS 61 II. IDYLLIC