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Title: Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I
Essay 2: Carlyle

Author: John Morley

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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