Thomas Carlyle

'A great man,' says Hegel, 'condemns the world to the task of explaining him.' Emphatically does the remark apply to Thomas Carlyle. When he began to leave his impress in litera...

Carlyle was feeling the force of Scott's remark that literature was a bad crutch--his prospects being far from bright. The Carlyles had been a little over eighteen months at Com...

Through all the material struggles Carlyle's mind at Craigenputtock was gradually shaping itself round a theory of the Universe and Man, from which he drew inspiration in his fu...

Mrs Carlyle entered heartily into her husband's proposal to remove to London. 'Burn our ships!' she gaily said to him one day (_i.e._, dismantle our house); 'carry all our furni...

Carlyle was so broken down with his efforts upon the _French Revolution_ that a trip to Annandale became necessary. He stayed at Scotsbrig two months, 'wholly idle, reading nove...

After a round of holiday visits, including one to Annandale, the Carlyles settled down once more at Cheyne Row in the summer of 1865. 'The great outward event of Carlyle's own l...

In presence of the pathetically tragic spectacle of Carlyle in his old age, who can have the heart to enter into his domestic life and weigh with pedantic scales the old man's b...

In his essay on Carlyle, Mr John Morley utters a protest against the habit of labelling great men with names. After making every allowance for the waywardness of the men of intu...

It is the misfortune of the critic, the historian, and the sociologist to be superseded. In the march of events the specialist is fated to be left behind. The influence of the i...