The Philosophy of CarlyleHoughton, Mifflin, 1881 - 140 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... principles to light which the thoughtful man is glad to think about . The obtuseness of much of the recent criticism of Carlyle is well illustrated by the comments of one of the English critics upon Carlyle's story of listening in ...
... principles to light which the thoughtful man is glad to think about . The obtuseness of much of the recent criticism of Carlyle is well illustrated by the comments of one of the English critics upon Carlyle's story of listening in ...
Pagina 22
... principle of its unities and the secret of its discords . - II . But it will be said that Carlyle was not a philos- opher at all.1 Prophet , seer , poet , what you will , 1 The nucleus of the present essay is a paper read shortly after ...
... principle of its unities and the secret of its discords . - II . But it will be said that Carlyle was not a philos- opher at all.1 Prophet , seer , poet , what you will , 1 The nucleus of the present essay is a paper read shortly after ...
Pagina 23
... principles . He may utter himself in his own way and approach first princi- ples from any side he chooses : - Thales from phys- ics , Schiller from æsthetics , Jonathan Edwards from ethics . He may write his one book , his es- say , his ...
... principles . He may utter himself in his own way and approach first princi- ples from any side he chooses : - Thales from phys- ics , Schiller from æsthetics , Jonathan Edwards from ethics . He may write his one book , his es- say , his ...
Pagina 25
... principles of his own science . Philos- ophy is a universal , and the great philosopher is the great thinker . Dr. McCosh is not a philoso pher because his subject is The Intuitions of the - Mind , nor Noah Porter because his book is ...
... principles of his own science . Philos- ophy is a universal , and the great philosopher is the great thinker . Dr. McCosh is not a philoso pher because his subject is The Intuitions of the - Mind , nor Noah Porter because his book is ...
Pagina 26
... principles than any others . If a third were to be added , it must be Hawthorne . - III . In trying to determine what a great philosopher like Carlyle teaches about first principles , we en- counter , in the first place , the difficulty ...
... principles than any others . If a third were to be added , it must be Hawthorne . - III . In trying to determine what a great philosopher like Carlyle teaches about first principles , we en- counter , in the first place , the difficulty ...
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Adamite altogether American aristocracy believe Calvinism Carlyle's Chartism chiefly Church Cleon consciousness criticism Cromwell democracy despotism divine doctrine duty dyspepsia earnest earth Emerson England English essay eternal ethical evil eyes faith feeling Fichte force Frederick freedom French FRENCH MATERIALISM French Revolution genius genuine George Eliot GERMAN IDEALISM German philosophy God's Goethe heart heaven Hegel human idea ideal intellectual justice Kant less literary living Lowell lyle man's matter mechanical ment metaphysics mind moral Natural Supernaturalism never Novalis Past and Present pessimism pessimist Philos philoso Plato poet political principle of certitude prophet question reason recognition reform religion reverence Revolution Rousseau Sartor Resartus says Carlyle Schiller Schopenhauer seems sincere soul speak spirit Sterling thing thinker Thomas Carlyle thou thought tion true truth uncon unconscious universe wise words write wrong wrote
Populaire passages
Pagina 124 - The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition.
Pagina 79 - The cold, colossal, adamantine spirit, standing erect and clear, like a Cato Major among degenerate men; fit to have been the teacher of the Stoa, and to have discoursed of Beauty and Virtue in the groves of Academe!
Pagina 122 - ... shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Pagina 75 - The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a Planet, is partially known to us: but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger Cycle of causes our little Epicycle revolves on?
Pagina 74 - Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God ; that through every star, through every grassblade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.
Pagina 74 - All visible things are emblems ; what thou seest is not there on its own account ; strictly taken, is not there at all; matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea, and body it forth.
Pagina 81 - On the roaring billows of Time, thou art not engulfed, but borne aloft into the azure of Eternity. Love not Pleasure; love God. This is the EVERLASTING YEA, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him.
Pagina 75 - To the Minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar: but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides...
Pagina 124 - Touch it not, ye workers, ye master-workers, ye master-idlers; none of you can touch it, no man of you shall be the better for it; this is enchanted fruit!
Pagina 81 - I see a glimpse of it !' cries he elsewhere : ' there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness : he can do 'without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was ' it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, ' the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered ; ' bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the God...