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Title: Past and Present
Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Release Date: July 31, 2008 [EBook #26159]

Language: English

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THOMAS CARLYLE'S

COLLECTED WORKS.

LIBRARY EDITION.
_IN THIRTY VOLUMES._

VOL. XIII.
PAST AND PRESENT.

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL (LIMITED),
11 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

PAST AND PRESENT.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

Ernst ist das Leben.
SCHILLER.

[1843.]

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

PROEM.

CHAP. PAGE

I. Midas 3

II. The Sphinx 10

III. Manchester Insurrection 19

IV. Morrison's Pill 29

V. Aristocracy of Talent 34

VI. Hero-Worship 41

BOOK II.

THE ANCIENT MONK.

I. Jocelin of Brakelond 51

II. St. Edmundsbury 60

III. Landlord Edmund 65

IV. Abbot Hugo 73

V. Twelfth Century 79

VI. Monk Samson 84

VII. The Canvassing 92

VIII. The Election 96

IX. Abbot Samson 105

X. Government 112

XI. The Abbot's Ways 117

XII. The Abbot's Troubles 124

XIII. In Parliament 131

XIV. Henry of Essex 134

XV. Practical-Devotional 139

XVI. St. Edmund 148

XVII. The Beginnings 157

BOOK III.

THE MODERN WORKER.

I. Phenomena 171

II. Gospel of Mammonism 181

III. Gospel of Dilettantism 188

IV. Happy 192

V. The English 197

VI. Two Centuries 208

VII. Over-Production