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The new library edition of Mr. Carlyle's works may be taken for the final presentation of all that the author has to say to his contemporaries, and to possess the settled form in which he wishes his words to go to those of posterity who may prove to have ears for them. The canon is definitely made up. The golden Gospel of Silence is effectively compressed in thirty fine volumes. After all has been said about self-indulgent mannerisms, moral perversities, phraseological outrages, and the rest, these volumes will remain the noble monument of the industry, originality, conscientiousness, and genius of a noble character, and of. | Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley 1 Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley The Project Gutenberg EBook of Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Critical Miscellanies Vol. I Essay 2 Carlyle Author John Morley Release Date March 22 2007 EBook 20878 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRITICAL MISCELLANIES VOL. I Produced by Paul Murray Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY Critical Miscellanies Vol. I by John Morley VOL. I. 2 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 177 Natural Supernaturalism and the measure of its truth 179 Two qualities flowing from his peculiar fatalism -- 1 Contempt for excess of moral nicety 182 2 Defect of sympathy with masses of men 186 3 .