{"1": {"fulltext": "BEAUTIFUL\\nTHOUGHTS\\n4^^\\nTHOMAS CARLYLE", "height": "2889", "width": "2051", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,\\nChap,. __._._. Copyriiilit X(\u00c2\u00bb.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2736", "width": "1833", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2787", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2818", "width": "1884", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "41980\\nLIbr\u00c2\u00abiy of Gor\u00c2\u00bb..o- n\u00c2\u00ab\\n\\\\fcO (WIS ^ix.ii^iO\\nSEP 1 1900\\nSiO ^iO COPY.\\nOtulH DIVISION,\\nSFP 6 1.3Q\\nCOPYRIGHT, 1900. BV\\nJAM KS POTT CO\\nT/fy\\n74242", "height": "2802", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nEuGGED and uncouth as Carlyle s\\nstyle is, it yet has the merit of arresting\\nthe attention of the reader, and forcing\\nhim to dwell on the lessons which the\\nsage of Chelsea desires to inculcate.\\nCarlyle s object was to show that, how-\\never important the mere trappings and\\ninsignia of rank and powder were, they\\ncould not for long retain the respect\\nand veneration, of the world unless they\\nreally were the outward symbols of\\nvirile manhood. To Carlyle Might was\\nEight, because he believed that Eight\\nwas always strong and mighty by\\nreason of its inherent justice and force.\\nHence Carlyle could be in sympathy\\nwith the brutal Csesarism of Frederick\\nthe Great or of Cromwell, as well as\\nwith the equally brutal force of the un-", "height": "2787", "width": "1980", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nknown units who made up the People\\nin the days of the triumphant Revolution\\nin France.\\nAll that was strong claimed his homage.\\nShams and subterfuges were the butt\\nof his sarcasm because they were the\\nsymbols of weakness. The really strong\\nman disdained all lies because he was\\npowerful enough to be truthful, oven if\\ntruth was brutal in its expression. It is\\nin his delineation of the forces and pas-\\nsions that move great men and great\\nmasses of people that Carlyle compels\\nour admiration, and has added to our\\nliterature an abundance of Beautiful\\nThoughts. Thoughts that are Beauti-\\nful, not by reason of their elegance of\\ndiction or of expression, but Beautiful\\nin their strength and ruggedness, having\\nthe beauty not of the flower but of the\\ngrey granite that towers above the pretty\\nverdure at its feet.", "height": "2772", "width": "1863", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "JANUARY", "height": "2792", "width": "1879", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2772", "width": "1863", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "January ist.\\nHope deferred maketh the heart\\nsick. And yet, as we said, Hope is\\nbut deferred not abolished, not abolish-\\nable. It is very notable and touching,\\nhow this same Hope does still light on-\\nwards the French Nation through all its\\nwild destinies. For we shall still find\\nHope shining, be it for fond invitation,\\nbe it for anger and menace; as a mild\\nheavenly light is shown; as a red con-\\nflagration it shines: burning sulphurous\\nblue, through darkest regions of Terror\\nit still shines; and goes not out at all,\\nsince Desperation itself is a kind of", "height": "2792", "width": "1879", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nHope. Thus is our Era still to be\\nnamed of Hope, though in the saddest\\nsense, when there is nothing left but\\nHope.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJanuary 2d.\\nThe wealth of a man is the number of\\nthings which he loves and blesses, which\\nhe is loved and blessed by\\nPast and Present\\nJanuary jd.\\nA healthy nature may or may not be\\ngreat; but there is no great nature that\\nis not healthy.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nJanuary 4th.\\nObedience is our universal duty and\\ndestiny; wherein whoso will not bend\\nmust break too early and too thoroughly", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE g\\nwe cannot be trained to know that\\nWould, in this world of ours, is as mere\\nZero to Should, and for most part\\nas the smallest of fractions even to Shall.\\nSartor Resartus,\\nJanuary 3th.\\nIn a valiant suffering for others, not\\nin a slothful making others suffer for us,\\ndid nobleness ever lie. The chief of\\nmen is he who stands in the van of men\\nfronting the peril which frightens back\\nall others which, if it be not vanquished,\\nwill devour the others. Every noble\\ncrown is, and on Earth will forever be,\\na crown of thorns.\\nFas( and Present.\\nJanuary 6th.\\nClothes gave us individuality, dis-\\ntinctions, social pohty; Clothes have", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "lo BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nmade Men of us; they are threatening\\nto make Clothes-screens of us.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJanuary yth.\\nIn Books lies the soul of the whole\\nPast Time; the articulate audible voice\\nof the Past, when the body and mate-\\nrial substance of it has altogether van-\\nished like a dream. Mighty fleets and\\narmies, harbours and arsenals, vast\\ncities, high-domed, many-engined,\\nthey are precious, great: but what do\\nthey become Agamemnon, the many\\nAgamemnons, Pericleses, and their\\nGreece; all is gone now to some ruined\\nfragments, dumb mournful wrecks and\\nblocks: but the Books of Greece!\\nThere Greece, to every thinker,still very\\nliterally lives; can be called up again", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE ii\\ninto life. No magic Rune is stranger\\nthan a Book. All that Mankind has\\ndone, thought, gained or been it is\\nlying as in magic preservation in the\\npages of Books. They are the chosen\\npossession of men.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJanuary 8th.\\nBut indeed, in all things, writing or\\nother, which a man engages in, there\\nis the indispensablest beauty in know-\\ning how to get do?ie. A man frets him-\\nself to no purpose he has not the\\nsleight of the trade; he is not a crafts-\\nman, but an unfortunate borer and\\nbungler, if he know not when to have\\ndone. Perfection is unattainable: no\\ncarpenter ever made a mathematically\\naccurate right-angle in the world; yet", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nall carpenters know when It is right\\nenough, and do not botch it, and lose\\ntheir wages, by making it too right.\\nToo much painstaking speaks disease\\nin one s mind, as well as too little.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nJanuary gth.\\nThere are but two ways of paying\\ndebt: increase of industry in raising\\nincome, increase of thrift in laying it\\nout.\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary lOth.\\nI venture to assert, that the exercise\\nof priv^ate judgment, faithfully gone\\nabout, does by no means necessarily\\nend in selfish independence, isolation;\\nbut rather ends necessarily in the oppo-\\nsite of that. It is not honest inquiry", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARLYLE 13\\nthat makes anarchy; but it is error,\\ninsincerity, half-belief and untruth that\\nmake it. A man protesting against etror\\nis on the way towards uniting himself with\\nall men that believe in truth.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJanuary nth.\\nFor if new-got gold is said to burn\\nthe pockets till it be cast forth into\\ncirculation, much more may new Truth.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJanuary 12th.\\nMammon is like Fire; the usefulest\\nof all servants, if the frightfulest of all\\nmasters.\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary iph.\\nFrightful to all men is death from\\nof old named King of Terrors. Our", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nlittle compact home of an Existence,\\nwhere we dwelt complaining, yet as in\\na home, is passing, in dark agonies,\\ninto an Unknown of Separation, For-\\neignness, unconditioned Possibility.\\nThe Heathen Emperor asks of his soul\\nInto what places art thou now depart-\\ning The Catholic King must answer:\\nTo the Judgment-bar of the Most High\\nGod Yes, it is a summing-up of Life\\na final settling, and giving-in the ac-\\ncount of the deeds done in the body:\\nthey are done now; and lie there un-\\nalterable, and do bear their fruits, long\\nas eternity shall last.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJanuary 14th.\\nHabit is our primal, fundamental\\nlaw; Habit and Imitation, there is", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 15\\nnothing more perennial in us than these\\ntwo. They are the source of all Work-\\ning and all Apprenticeship, of all\\nPractice and all Learning, in this world.\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary i^th.\\nThe world has to obey him who\\nthinks and sees in the world. The\\nworld can alter the manner of that;\\ncan either have it as blessed continuous\\nsummer sunshine, or as unblessed black\\nthunder and tornado, with unspeakable\\ndifference of profit for the world The\\nmanner of it is very alterable; the\\nmatter and fact of it is not alterable\\nby any power under the sky. Light;\\nor failing that, lightning; the world\\ncan take its choice.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "i6 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJanuary i6th.\\nTruly a thinking Man is the worst\\nenemy the Prince of Darkness can have\\nevery time such a one announces him-\\nself, I doubt not, there runs a shudder\\nthrough the Nether Empire; and new\\nEmissaries are trained, with new tactics,\\nto, if possible, entrap him, and hood-\\nwink and handcuff him.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJanuary lyth.\\nWe take it for granted, the most\\nrigorous of us, that all men who have\\nmade anything are expected and en-\\ntitled to make the loudest possible\\nproclamation of it; call on a discerning\\npublic to reward them for it. Every\\nman his own trumpeter; that is, to a", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 1 7\\nreally alarming extent, the accepted\\nrule.\\nPast and Prtsent.\\nJanuary i8th.\\nThe suffering man ought really to\\nconsume his own smoke; there is no\\ngood in emitting smoke till you have\\nmade it mio fire, which, in the meta-\\nphorical sense too, all smoke is capa-\\nble of becoming!\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJanuary igth.\\nThou wilt never sell thy Life, or any\\npart of thy Life, in a satisfactory man-\\nner. Give it, like a royal heart; et\\nthe price be Nothing: thou hast then,\\nin a certain sense, got All for it! The\\nheroic man, and is not every man.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nGod be thanked, a potential hero\\nhas to do so, in all times and circum-\\nstances.\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary 20th.\\nAn unbelieving Eighteenth Century\\nis but an exception, such as now and\\nthen occurs. I prophesy that the\\nworld will once more become sincere\\na believing world; with mariy Heroes\\nin it, a heroic world! It will then be\\na victorious world, never till then.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJanuary 21st.\\nNature, like the Sphinx, is of wom-\\nanly celestial loveliness and tenderness;\\nthe face and bosom of a goddess, but\\nending in claws and the body of a\\nlioness. There is in her a celestial", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 19\\nbeauty, which means celestial order,\\npliancy to wisdom; but there is also a\\ndarkness, a ferocity, fatality, which are\\ninfernal.\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary 2 2d.\\nMeanwhile, observe with joy, so\\ncunningly has Nature ordered it, that\\nwhatsover man ought to obey he can-\\nnot but obey. Before no faintest rev-\\nelation of the Godlike did he ever\\nstand irreverent; least of all, when the\\nGodlike showed itself revealed in his\\nfellowman.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJanuary 2sd.\\nWhere thou findest a Lie that is op-\\npressing thee, extinguish it. Lies exist", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthere only to be extinguished; they\\nwait and cry earnestly for extinction.\\nThink well, meanwhile, in what spirit\\nthou wilt do it: not with hatred, with\\nheadlong selfish violence; but in clear-\\nness of heart, with holy zeal, gently,\\nalmost with pity. Thou wouldst not\\nreplace such extinct Lie by a new Lie,\\nwhich a new Injustice of thy own were;\\nthe parent of still other Lies Whereby\\nthe latter end of that business were\\nworse than the beginning.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJanuary 24th.\\nUnder all speech that is good for\\nanything there lies a silence that is\\nbetter. Silence is deep as Eternity;\\nspeech is shallow as Time.\\nSir Walter Scott.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 21\\nJanuary 2^th.\\nThe merit of originality is not novelty\\nit is sincerity. The believing man is\\nthe original man; whatsoever he be-\\nlieves he believes it for himself, not\\nfor another. Every son of Adam can\\nbecome a sincere man, an original man,\\nin this sense; no mortal is doomed to\\nbe an insincere man. Whole ages,\\nwhat we call ages of Faith, are original;\\nall men in them, or the most of men\\nin them, sincere. These are the great\\nand fruitful ages: every worker, in all\\nspheres, is a worker not on semblance\\nbut on substance; every work issues in\\na result: the general sum of such work\\nis great; for all of it, as genuine, tends\\ntowards one goal; all of it is additive^\\nnone of it subtractive. There is true", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nunion, true kingship, loyalty, all true\\nand blessed things, so far as the poor\\nEarth can produce blessedness for men.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJanuary 26th.\\nMeanwhile, what theory is so cer-\\ntain as this, That all theories, were\\nthey never so earnest, painfully elabo-\\nrated, are, and, by the very conditions\\nof them, must be incomplete, question-\\nable, and even false Thou shalt know\\nthat this Universe is, what it professes\\nto be, an infinite one. Attempt not to\\nswallow it, for thy logical digestion;\\nbe thankful, if skilfully planting down\\nthis and the other fixed pillar in the\\nchaos, thou prevent its swallowing thee.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 23\\nJanuary 2yth.\\nOf a truth, if man were not a poor\\nhungry dastard, and even much of a\\nblockhead withal, he would cease criti-\\ncising his victuals to such extent; and\\ncriticise himself rather, what he does\\nwith his victuals!\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary 28th.\\nSilence and Secrecy Altars might\\nstill be raised to them (were this an\\naltar-building time) for universal wor-\\nship. Silence is the element in which\\ngreat things fashion themselves to-\\ngether that at length they may emerge,\\nfull-formed and majestic, into the day-\\nlight of Life, which they are thence-\\nforth to rule. Not William the Silent\\nonly,but all the considerable men I have", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nknown, and the most undipromatic and\\nunstrategicof these,foreboretobabbleof\\nwhat they were creating and projecting.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJanuary 2 )th.\\nTo speak in the ancient dialect, we\\nhave forgotten God; in the most\\nmodern dialect and very truth of the\\nmatter, we have taken up the Fact of\\nthis Universe as it is not. We have\\nquietly closed our eyes to the eternal\\nSubstance of things, and opened them\\nonly to the Shows and Shams of things.\\nWe quietly believe this Universe to be\\nintrinsically a great unintelligible Per-\\nhaps; extrinsically, clear enough, it is\\na great, most extensive Cattlefold and\\nWorkhouse, with most extensive\\nKitchen-ranges, Dining-tables, where-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 25\\nat he is wise who can find a place!\\nAll the Truth of this Universe is un-\\ncertain only the profit and loss of it,\\nthe pudding and praise of it, are and\\nremain very visible to the practical man.\\nPast and Present.\\nJanuary ^oth,\\nMan and his Life rest no more on\\nhoUowness and a Lie, but on solidity\\nand some kind of Truth. Welcome,\\nthe beggarliest truth, so it de one, in\\nexchange for the royallest sham\\nTruth of any kind breeds ever new and\\nbetter truth thus hard granite rock will\\ncrumble down into soil, under the blessed\\nskyey influences; and cover itself with\\nverdure, with fruitage and umbrage. But\\nas for Falsehood, which in like contrary\\nmanner, grows ever falser, what can", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nit,or what should it do but decease, being\\nripe; decompose itself, gently or even\\nviolently, and return to the Father of\\nit, too probably in flames of fire\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJanuary ^ist.\\nWhat is tolerance Tolerance has\\nto tolerate the ?/\u00c2\u00abessential and to see\\nwell what that is. Tolerance has to be\\nnoble, measured, just in its very wrath,\\nwhen it can tolerate no longer. But,\\non the whole, we are not altogether\\nhere to tolerate! We are here to re-\\nsist, to control and vanquish withal.\\nWe do not tolerate Falsehoods, Iniq-\\nuities, when they fasten on us; we say\\nto them, Thou art false and unjust. We\\nare here to extinguish Falsehoods, and\\nput an end to them, in some wise way.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "FEBRUARY", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "February isf.\\nOn the whole, how unknown is a\\nman to himself; or a public Body of\\nmen to itself! ^sop s fly sat on\\nthe chariot-wheel, exclaiming. What a\\ndust I do raise Great Governors, clad\\nin purple with fasces and insignia, are\\ngoverned by their valets, by the pout-\\ning of their women and children; or,\\nin Constitutional countries, by the par-\\nagraphs of their Able Editors. Say\\nnot, I am this or that; I am doing this\\nor that For thou knowest il not, thou\\nknowest only the name it as yet goes\\nby. A purple Nebuchadnezzar rejoices\\nto feel himself now verily Emperor of\\nthis great Babylon which he has\\nbuilded; and is a nondescript biped-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nquadruped, on the eve of a seven-years\\ncourse of grazing!\\nFrench Revolution.\\nFehruary 2d.\\nThought without reverence is barren,\\nperhaps poisonous; at best, dies like\\nCookery with the day that called it\\nforth; does not live, like sowing, in\\nsuccessive tilths and wider-spreading\\nharvests, bringing food and plenteous\\nincrease to all time.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nFebruary ^d.\\nOur highest Religion is named the\\nWorship of Sorrow. For the son of\\nman there is no noble crown, well\\nworn, or even ill worn, but is a crown\\nof thorns!\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 3 1\\nFebruary 4th.\\nThe uttered part of a man s life, let\\nus always repeat, bears to the unuttered\\nunconscious part a small unknown pro-\\nportion he himself never knows it,\\nmuch less do others- Give him room,\\ngive him impulse he reaches down to\\nthe Infinite with that so straitly-im-\\nprisoned soul of his; and can do mir-\\nacles if need be! It is one of the\\ncomfortablest truths that great men\\nabound, though in the unknown\\nstate.\\nSir Walter Scott\\nFebruary ^th.\\nSense can support herself handsome-\\nly, in most countries, for some eighteen-\\npence a day but for Fantasy planets and", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "33 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nsolar systems will not suffice. Witness\\nyour Pyrrhus conquering the world, yet\\ndrinking no better red wine than he\\nhad before.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nFebruary 6tli.\\nIf Hero mean siiiccre nian, why may\\nnot every one of us be a Hero A\\nworld all sincere, a believing world:\\nthe like has been; the like will again\\nbe, cannot help being. That were\\nthe right sort of Worshippers for\\nHeroes: never could the truly Better\\nbe so reverenced as where all were\\nTrue and Good\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nFebruary yth.\\nMy brother, the brave man has to\\ngive his Life away Give it, I advise", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 33\\nthee; thou dost not expect to sell thy\\nLife in an adequate manner What\\nprice, for example, would content thee?\\nThe just price of thy Life to thee,\\nwhy, God s entire Creation to thyself,\\nthe whole Universe of Space, the whole\\nEternity of Time, and what they hold:\\nthat is the price which would content\\nthee; that, and if thou wilt be candid,\\nnothing short of that!\\nPast and Present.\\nFebruary 8th.\\nMasses, indeed; and yet, singular to\\nsay, if, with an effort of imagination,\\nthou follow them, over broad France,\\ninto their clay hovels, into their garrets\\nand hutches, the masses consist all of\\nunits. Every unit of whom has his", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nown heart and sorrows; stands covered\\nthere with his own skin, and if you\\nprick him he will bleed. O purple\\nSovereignty, Holiness, Reverence;\\nthou, for example, Cardinal Grand-\\nAlmoner, with thy plush covering of\\nhonour, who hast thy hands strength-\\nened with dignities and moneys, and\\nart set on thy world watch-tower sol-\\nemnly, in sight of God, for such ends,\\nwhat a thought: that every unit of\\nthese masses is a miraculous Man, even\\nas thyself art; struggling, with vision,\\nor with blindness, for Jiis infinite King-\\ndom (this life which he has got, once\\nonly, in the middle of Eternities); with\\na spark of the Divinity, what thou cal-\\nlest an immortal soul, in him!\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL VLB 3 5\\nFebruary gth.\\nThat there should one Man die Igno-\\nrant who had capacity for Knowledge,\\nthis I call a tragedy, were it to happen\\nmore than twenty times in the minute,\\nas by some computations it does. The\\nmiserable fraction of Science which our\\nunited Mankind, in a wide Universe of\\nNescience, has acquired, why is not this,\\nwith all diligence, imparted to all\\nSartor Resartus\\nFebruary loth.\\nFor the Earth, I say, is an earnest\\nplace; Life is no grimace, but a most\\nserious fact.\\nPast and Present.\\nFebruary nth.\\nLuther learned 7ww that a man was\\nsaved not by si?iging masse s^ but by the", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ninfinite grace of God; a more credible\\nhypothesis. He gradually got himself\\nfounded, as on the rock. No wonder\\nhe should venerate the Bible, which\\nhad brought this blessed help to him.\\nHe prized it as the Word of the Highest\\n7nust be prized by such a 7nan. He de-\\ntermined to hold by that: as through life\\nand to death he firmly did.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nFebruary 12th.\\nBlessed is the healthy nature; it is\\nthe coherent, sweetly co-operative, not\\nincoherent, self-distracting, self-de-\\nstructive one! In the harmonious\\nadjustment and play of all the faculties,\\nthe just balance of oneself gives a just", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLH 37\\nfeeling towards ah men and all things.\\nGlad light from within radiates out-\\nwards, and enlightens and embel-\\nlishes.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nFehrtiary i^th.\\nThere is a clear truth in the idea\\nthat a struggle from the lower classes\\nof society, towards the upper regions\\nand rewards of society, must ever con-\\ntinue. Strong men are born there,\\nwho ought to stand elsewhere than\\nthere. The manifold, inextricably\\ncomplex, universal struggle of these\\nconstitutes, and must constitute, what\\nis called the progress of society.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nFebruary 14th.\\nA paradoxical philosopher, carrying\\nto the uttermost length that aphorism\\nof Montesquieu s, Happy the people\\nwhose annals are tiresome, has said,\\nHappy the people whose annals are\\nvacant. In which saying, mad as it\\nlooks, may there not still be found\\nsome grain of reason For truly, as\\nit has been written, Silence is divine,\\nand of Heaven; so in all earthly things\\ntoo there is a silence which is better\\nthan any speech. Consider it well,\\nthe Event, the thing which can be\\nspoken of and recorded, is it not, in\\nall cases, some disruption, some solu-\\ntion of continuity Were it even a\\nglad Event, it invoh^es change, involves\\nloss (of active Force); and so far, either", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 39\\nin the past or in the present, is an irreg-\\nularity, a disease. Stillest perseverance\\nwere our blessedness; not dislocation\\nand alteration, could they be avoided.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nFebruary i\u00c2\u00a7th.\\nThe man who cannot laugh is not\\nonly fit for treasons, stratagems, and\\nspoils; but his whole life is already a\\ntreason and a stratagem.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nFebruary i6th.\\nTo reconcile Despotism with Free-\\ndom: well, is that such a mystery?\\nDo you not already know the way", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nIt is to make your Despotism just.\\nRigorous as Destiny; but just too, as\\nDestiny and its Laws.\\nPast and Present.\\nFehrnary lyth.\\nThe Constitution, the set of Laws,\\nor prescribed Habits of Acting, that\\nmen will live under, is the one which\\nimages their Convictions, their Faith\\nas to this wondrous Universe, and\\nwhat rights, duties, capabilities they\\nhave there; which stands sanctioned,\\ntherefore, by Necessity itself; if not\\nby a seen Deity, then by an unseen\\none. Other Laws, whereof there are\\nalways enough ready-mdidQ, are usurpa-\\ntions; which men do not obey, but", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 41\\nrebel against it, and abolish, by their\\nearliest convenience.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nFebruary i8th.\\nA fundamental mistake to call vehe-\\nmence and rigidity strength! A man\\nis not strong who takes convulsion fits;\\nthough six men cannot hold him then.\\nHe that can walk under the heaviest\\nweight without staggering, he is the\\nstrong man. We need forever,/espe-\\ncially in these loud-shrieking days, to\\nremind ourselves of that. A man who\\ncdinnoi hold his peace, till the time comes\\nfor speaking and acting, is no right\\nman.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nFebruary ipth.\\nHonour to the strong man, in these\\nages, who has shaken himself loose of\\nshams and is something.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nFebruary 20th.\\nEvery noble work is at first impos-\\nsible. In very truth, for every noble\\nwork the possibilities will lie diffused\\nthrough Immensity: inarticulate, un-\\ndiscoverable except to faith.\\nPast and Present.\\nFebruary 21st.\\nHow true also, once more, is it that\\nno man or Nation of men, conscious of\\ndoing a great thing, was ever, in that\\nthing, doing other than a small one!", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 43\\nO Champ-de-Mars Federation, with\\nthree hundred drummers, twelve hun-\\ndred wind-musicians, and artillery\\nplanted on height after height to boom\\nthe tidings of it all over France, in a\\nfew minutes! Could no Atheist-Nai-\\ngeon contrive to discern, eighteen\\ncenturies off, those Thirteen most poor\\nmean-dressed men, at frugal Supper,\\nin a mean Jewish dwelling, with no\\nsymbol but hearts God-initiated into\\nthe Divine depth of Sorrow, and a\\nDo this in remembrance of me and so\\ncease that small difficult crowing of\\nhis, if he were not doomed to it\\nFrench Revolution.\\nFebruary 22d.\\nLabour is not a devil, even while\\nencased in Mammonism: Labour is", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\never an imprisoned God, writhing un-\\nconsciously or consciously to escape\\nout of Mammonisni\\nPast and Present.\\nFebruary 2jd.\\nDespise not the rag from which man\\nmakes Paper, or the litter from which\\nthe Earth makes Corn. Rightly viewed\\nno meanest object is insignificant; all\\nobjects are as windows, through which\\nthe philosophic eye looks into Infini-\\ntude itself.\\nSartor Resartus.\\n/February j.fth.\\nOn all hands of us, there is the an-\\nnouncement, audible enough, that the\\nold Empire of Routine has ended; that", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 45\\nto say a thing has long been, is no\\nreason for its continuing to be. The\\nthings which have been are fallen into\\ndecay, are fallen into incompetence;\\nlarge masses of mankind, in every\\nsociety of our Europe, are no longer\\ncapable of living at all by the things\\nwhich have been.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nFehruary 2^th.\\nWork is of a religious nature work\\nis of a brave nature; which it is the\\naim of all religion to be. All work\\nof man is as the swimmer s: a waste\\nocean threatens to devour him; if he\\nfront it not bravely, it will keep its\\nword. By incessant wise defiance of\\nit, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, behold", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nhow it loyally supports him, bears him\\nas its conijucror along,\\nPast and Present.\\nPcbniary 26th.\\nWhen a man s life feels itself to be\\nsick and an error, no voting of by-\\nstanders can make it well and a truth\\nagain.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nFchruary 2/th.\\nAt all turns, a man who \\\\\\\\\\\\.do faith-\\nfully, needs to believe firmly.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nFebruary 28th.\\nWith these signs of the times, it is\\nnot surprising that the dominant feel-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 47\\ning all over France was still continually\\nHope O blessed Hope, sole boon\\nof man; whereby, on his strait prison\\nwalls, are painted beautiful far-stretch-\\ning landscapes; and into the night of\\nvery Death is shed holiest dawn!\\nThou art to all an indefeasible posses-\\nsion in this God s-world: to the wise\\na sacred Constantine s-banner, written\\non the eternal skies; under which they\\nshall conquer, for the battle itself is\\nvictory: to the foolish some secular\\nmirage, or shadow of still waters,\\npainted on the parched Earth; whereby\\nat least their dusty pilgrimage, if de-\\nvious, becomes cheerfuller, becomes\\npossible.\\nFrench Revolution", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nFebruary zgth.\\nProtection of property, of what is\\nmine means with most men protection\\nof money, the thing which, had I a\\nthousand padlocks over it, is least of\\nall min^; is, in a manner, scarcely worth\\ncalling mine!\\n/^asi and Present,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "MARCH", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "March ist.\\nGreat is Bankruptcy: the great bot-\\ntomless gulf into which all Falsehoods,\\npublic and private, do sink, disappear-\\ning; whither, from the first origin of\\nthem, they were all doomed. For\\nNature is true and not a lie. No he\\nyou can speak or act but it will come,\\nafter longer or shorter circulation, like\\na Bill drawn on Nature s Realty, and\\nbe presented there for payment, with\\nthe answer, ?to effects. Pity only that\\nit often had so long a circulation:\\nthat the original forger were so seldom\\nhe who bore the final smart of it Lies,\\nand the burden of evil they bring, are\\npassed on; shifted from back to back,\\nand from rank to rank; and so land", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nultimately on the dumb lowest rank,\\nwho with spade and mattock, with\\nsore heart and empty wallet, daily come\\nin contact with reality, and can pass the\\ncheat no further.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMarch 2d.\\nTo learn obeying is the fundamental\\nart of governing. How much would\\nmany a serene Highness have learned,\\nhad he travelled through the world with\\nwater-jug and empty wallet, sine omni\\nexpejisa; and at his victorious return,\\nsat down not to newspaper-paragraphs\\nand city-illuminations, but at the foot\\nof St. Edmund s Shrine to shackles\\nand bread and water! He that cannot\\nbe servant of many, will never be\\nmaster, true guide and deliverer of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 53\\nmany; that is the meaning of true\\nmastership.\\nPast and Prestnt.\\nMarch 3d.\\nWhat you see, yet cannot see over,\\nis as good as infinite.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMarch 4th.\\nHabit is the deepest law of human\\nnature. It is our supreme strength;\\nif also, in certain circumstances, our\\nmiserablest weakness.\\nPast and Present.\\nMarch 5th.\\nIf we think of it, all that a Univer-\\nsity, or final highest School can do for\\nus, is still but what the first School be-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ngan doing, teach us to read. We\\nlearn to read, in various languages, in\\nvarious sciences; we learn the alphabet\\nand letters of all manner of Books.\\nBut the place where we are to get knowl-\\nedge, even theoretic knowledge, is the\\nBooks themselves! It depends on\\nwhat wo read, after all manner of Pro-\\nfessors have done their best for us.\\nThe true University of these days is a\\ncollection of Books.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nMarch 6th.\\nPerhaps our greatest poets are the\\ntmite Miltons; the vocals are those\\nwhom by happy accident we lay hold\\nof, one here, one there, as it chances,\\nand make vocal.\\nSir Walter Scott.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 55\\nMarch /th.\\nDiscipline we called a kind of mir-\\nacle: in fact, is it not miraculous how\\none man moves hundreds of thousands;\\neach unit of whom it may be loves him\\nnot, and singly fears him not, yet has\\nto obey him, to go hither or go thither,\\nto march and halt, to give death, and\\neven to receive it, as if a Fate had\\nspoken; and the word-of-command\\nbecomes, almost in the literal sense, a\\nmagic-word.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMarch 8th,\\nWhen Belief waxes uncertain, Prac-\\ntice too becomes unsound.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMarch Qth.\\nWhat is the use of health, or of life,\\nif not to do some work therewith\\nAnd what work nobler than transplant-\\ning foreign Thought into the barren\\ndomestic soil; except Indeed planting\\nThought of your own, which the fewest\\nare privileged to do\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMarch loth.\\nIn all battles, if you await the issue,\\neach fighter has prospered according\\nto his right. His right and his might,\\nat the close of the account, were one\\nand the same. He has fought with\\nall his might, and in exact proportion\\nto all his right he has prevailed.\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARL YLE 5 7\\nMarch nth.\\nMan, Symbol of Eternity im-\\nprisoned into Time is not thy works,\\nwhich are all mortal, infinitely little,\\nand the greatest no greater than the\\nleast, but only the Spirit thou workest\\nin, that can have worth or continuance.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMarch 12th.\\nMen believe in Bibles, and disbe-\\nlieve in themS but of all Bibles the\\nfrightfullest to disbelieve in is this\\nBible of Universal History/ This\\nis the Eternal Bible and God s-book,\\nwhich every born man, till once the\\nsoul and eyesight are extinguished in\\nhim, can and must, with his own eyes,\\nsee the God s- Finger writing!\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMarch ijth.\\nAs indeed this, and the like of this,\\nwhich we now call Scepticism, is pre-\\ncisely the black malady and life-foe,\\nagainst which all teaching and dis-\\ncoursing since man s life began has\\ndirected itself; the battle of Belief\\nagainst Unbelief is the never-ending\\nbattle! Neither is it in the way of\\ncrimination that one would wish to\\nspeak. Scepticism, for that century,\\nwe must consider as the decay of old\\nways of believing, the preparation afar\\noff for new, better and wider ways,\\nan inevitable thing. We will not blame\\nmen for it; we will lament their hard\\nfate. We will understand that destruc-\\ntion of old forms is not destruction of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 59\\neverlasting substatues that Scepticism,\\nas sorrowful and hateful as we see it,\\nis not an end but a beginning.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nj March 14th.\\nFor men s hearts ought not to be\\nset against one another; but set with\\none another, and all against the Evil\\nThing only.\\nFast and Present.\\nMarch i^th.\\nOf this thing, however, be certain:\\nwouldst thou plant for Eternity, then\\nplant into the deep infinite faculties of\\nman his Fantasy and Heart; wouldst\\nthou plant for Year and Day, then\\nplant into his shallow superficial fac-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "6o BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nulties, his Self-love and Arithmetical\\nUnderstanding, what will grow there.\\nSartor Rtsartus.\\nMarch i6th.\\nWhen a Nation is unhappy, the\\nold Prophet was right and not wrong\\nin saying to it: Ye have forgotten God,\\nye have quitted the ways of God, or\\nye would not have been unhappy. It\\nis not according to the laws of Fact\\nthat ye have lived and guided your-\\nselves, but according to the laws of\\nDelusion, Imposture, and wilful and\\nunwilful Mistake of Fact behold there-\\nfore the Unveracity is worn out; Na-\\nture s long suffering with you is ex-\\nhausted; and ye are here.\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 6i\\nMarch lyth.\\nAs for man, his conflict is continual\\nwith the spirit of contradiction, that is\\nwithout and within; with the evil\\nspirit (or call it, with the weak, most\\nnecessitous, pitiable spirit), that is in\\nothers and in himself. His walk, like\\nall walking (say the mechanicians), is\\na series oi falls.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nMarch i8th.\\nIs not Light grander than Fire It\\nis the same element in a state of purity.\\nPast and Present.\\nMarch ipth.\\nBetween vague wavering Capability\\nand fixed indubitable Performance,\\nwhat a difference! A certain inarticu-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nlate Self-consciousness dwells dimly in\\nus which only our works can render\\narticulate and decisively discernible.\\nOur Works are the mirror wherein the\\nspirit first sees its natural lineaments.\\nHence, too, the folly of that impossible\\nPrecept, Knoii) thyself till it be trans-\\nlated into this partially possible one,\\nKnoiv what thou canst ivork at.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMarch 20th.\\nInfinite admiration, we are taught,\\nmeans worship.\\nPas/ and Present.\\nMarch 21st.\\nAs if Thought, Power, of Thinking,\\nwere not, at all times, in all places and\\nsituations of the world, precisely the", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 63\\nthing that was wanted. The fatal man,\\nis he not always the imthinking man, the\\nman who cannot think and see; but only\\ngrope, and hallucinate, and missQt the\\nnature of the thing he works with? He\\nmissees it, mistakes it as we say takes it\\nfor one thing, and it is another thing,\\nand leaves him standing like a futility\\nthere He is the fatal man unutterably\\nfatal, put in the high places of men.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nMarch 22d.\\nFor indeed it is well said^ in every\\nobject there is inexhaustible meaning;\\nthe eye sees in it what the eye brings\\nmeans of seeing. To Newton and to\\nNewton s Dog Diamond, what a different\\npair of Universes while the painting on", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthe optical retina of both was, most like-\\nly, the same.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMarch 2^d,\\nAh yes, soil, with or without plough-\\ning, is the gift of God. The soil of all\\ncountries belongs evermore, in a very\\nconsiderable degree, to the Almighty\\nMaker The last stroke of labor be-\\nstowed on it is not the making of its\\nvalue, but only the increasing thereof.\\nPasi and Present.\\nMarch 24th.\\nAny man may get through work rapid-\\nly who easily satisfies himself about it.\\nPrint the talk of any man, there will be\\na thick octavo volume daily; make his\\nwriting three times as good as his talk,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 65\\nthere will be the third part of a volume\\ndaily, which still is good work.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nMarch 2^th.\\nDeep in the heart of the noble man it\\nlies forever legible, that, as an Invisible\\nJust God made him, so will and must\\nGod s Justice and this only, were it never\\nso invisible, ultimately prosper in all con-\\ntroversies and enterprises and battles\\nwhatsoever. What an Influence; ever-\\npresent, like a Soul in the rudest Cali-\\nban of a body like a ray of Heaven, and\\nilluminative creative Fiat-Lux, in the\\nwastest terrestrial Chaos Blessed divine\\nInfluence, traceable even in the horror of\\nBattlefields and garments rolled in blood\\nhow it ennobles even the Battlefield and,", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nin place of a Chactaw Massacre, makes\\nit a Field of Honour\\nPast and Present.\\nMarch 26th.\\nNot our Logical, IMensurative faculty,\\nbut our Imaginative one is King over us\\nI might say, Priest and Prophet to lead\\nus heavenward or Magician and Wizard\\nto lead us hellward. Nay, even for the\\nbasest Sensualist, what is Sense but the\\nimplement of Fantasy the vessel it\\ndrinks out of?\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMarch 2/th.\\nObserve, however, beyond the Atlan-\\ntic, has not the new day verily dawned\\nDem.ocracy, as we said, is born; storm-\\ngirt, is struggling for life and victory.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 67\\nA sympathetic France rejoices over the\\nRights of Man in all saloons, it is said,\\nWhat a spectacle\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMarch 28th.\\nFirst must the dead Letter of Religion\\nown itself dead, and drop piecemeal into\\ndust, if the living Spirit of Religion,\\nfreed from this its charnel-house, is to\\narise on us, newborn of Heaven, and\\nwith new healing under its wings.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMarch 2^th.\\nYes, the wise man too speaks, and acts,\\nin Formulas all men do so. In general\\nthe more completely cased with Formulas\\na man may be, the safer, happier it is for\\nhim.\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMarch ^oth.\\nGreat is Journalism. Is not every\\nAble Editor a Ruler of the World, being\\na persuader of it though self-elected,\\nyet sanctioned, by the sale of his Num-\\nbers? Whom indeed the world has the\\nreadiest method of deposing, should need\\nbe: that of merely doing nothing to him\\nwhich ends in starvation\\nI rench Revolution.\\nMarch ^rsf.\\nlie that can write a true Book, to per-\\nsuade England, is not he the Bishop and\\nArchbishop, the Primate of England and\\nof All England? I many a time say,\\nthe writers of Newspapers, Pamphlets,\\nPoems, Books, these arc the real work-\\ning effective Church of a modern\\ncountry.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "APRIL", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "April 1st.\\nHast thou considered how each man s\\nheart is so tremulously responsive to\\nthe hearts of all men hast thou noted\\nhow omnipotent is the very sound of\\nmany men? How their shriek of indig-\\nnation palsies the strong soul their howl\\nof contumely withers with unfelt pangs?\\nThe Ritter Gliick confessed that the\\nground-tone of the noblest passage, in\\none of his noblest Operas, was the voice\\nof the Populace he had heard at Vienna,\\ncrying to their Kaiser: Bread! Bread!\\nGreat is the combined voice of men the\\nutterance of their instincts, which are\\ntruer than their thoughts: it is the great-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nest a man encounters, among the sounds\\nand shadows, which make up this World\\nof Time. He who can resist that, has\\nhis footing somewhere beyond Time.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nApril 2d.\\nA brave man, strenuously fighting,\\nfails not of a little triumph, now and\\nthen, to keep him in heart. Everywhere\\nwe try at least to give the adversary as\\ngood as he brings and, with swift force\\nor slow watchful manoeuvre, extinguish\\nthis and the other solecism, leave one\\nsolecism less in God s Creation and so\\nproceed with our battle, not slacken or\\nsurrender in it\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 73\\nApril 3d.\\nFor there is no heroic poem in the\\nworld but is at bottom a biography, the\\nHfe of a man also, it may be said, there\\nis no life of a man, faithfully recorded,\\nbut is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed\\nor unrhymed.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nApril 4th.\\nWhat changes are wrought, not by\\nTime, yet in Time. For not Mankind\\nonly, but all that Mankind does or be-\\nholds, is in continual growth, re-genesis\\nand self-perfecting vitality. Cast forth\\nthy Act, thy Word, into the ever-living,\\never-working Universe it is a seed-grain\\nthat cannot die; unnoticed to-day (says", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\none), it will be found flourishing as\\na Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a\\nHemlock-forest!) after a thousand\\nyears.\\nSartor Resartits.\\nApril f,th.\\nReality is of God s making; it is alone\\nstrong.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nApril 6th.\\nMen s years are numbered, and the\\ntale of Mirabeau s was now complete.\\nImportant, or unimportant to be men-\\ntioned in World-History for some cen-\\nturies, or not to be mentioned there be-\\nyond a day or two, it matters not to", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 75\\nperemptory Fate. From amid the press\\nof ruddy busy Life, the Pale Messenger\\nbeckons silently: wide-spreading inter-\\nests, projects, salvation of French Mon-\\narchies, what thing soever man has on\\nhand, he must suddenly quit it all,\\nand go. Wert thou saving French Mon-\\narchies wert thou blacking shoes on the\\nPont Neuf! The most important of\\nmen cannot stay; did the World s His-\\ntory depend on an hour, that hour is not\\nto be given. Whereby, indeed, it comes\\nthat these same would-have-beens are\\nmostly a vanity and the World s History\\ncould never in the least be what it would,\\nor might, or should, by any manner of\\npotentiality, but simply and altogether\\nwhat it is.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nApril /th.\\nEloquence in three languages is good\\nbut it is not the best. To us, as already\\nhinted, the Lord Abbot s eloquence is less\\nadmirable than his /^eloquence, his great\\ninvaluable **talent of silence\\nPast and Present.\\nApril 8th.\\nMan is, properly speaking, based upon\\nHope, he has no other possession but\\nHope; this world of his is emphatically\\nthe Place of Hope.\\nSartor Resarius.\\nApril p///.\\nLiterature is our Parliament too.\\nWhoever can speak, speaking now to", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 77\\nthe whole nation, becomes a power, a\\nbranch of government, with inahenable\\nweight in law-making, in all acts of\\nauthority. It matters not what rank he\\nhas, wliat revenues or garnitures the\\nrequisite thing is, that he have a tongue\\nwhich others will listen to this and noth-\\ning more is requisite. The nation is\\ngoverned by all that has tongue in\\nthe nation: Democracy is virtually\\nthere.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nApril lOth.\\nIt is not known that the Tongue of\\nMan is a sacred organ that Man him-\\nself is definable in Philosophy as an\\nIncarnate Word.\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nApril nth.\\nLevelling is comfortable, as we often\\nsay: levelling, yet only down to oneself.\\nYour pale-white Creoles, have their\\ngrievances: and your yellow Quarter-\\noons? And your dark-yellow Mulattoes?\\nAnd your Slaves soot-black?\\nFrench Revolution.\\nApril I2th.\\nVeracity it is the basis of all and,\\nsome say, means genius itself; the prime\\nessence of all genius whatsoever.\\nPast and Present.\\nApril i^th.\\nThere is a great discovery still to be\\nmade in Literature, that of paying", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE\\n79\\nliterary men by the quantity they do not\\nwrite. Nay, in sober truth, is not this\\nactually the rule in all writing; and,\\nmoreover, in all conduct and acting?\\nNot what stands aboveground, but what\\nlies unseen under it, as the root and sub-\\nterrene element it sprang from and em-\\nblemed forth, determines the value.\\nSir Walter Scett.\\nApril 14th.\\nA High Class without duties to do is\\nlike trees planted on precipices from the\\nroots of which all the earth has been\\ncrumbling.\\nPast and Present.\\nApril i^th.\\nSarcasm I now see to be, in general,\\nthe language of the Devil; for which", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "So BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nreason I have long since as good as re-\\nnounced it.\\nSartor Re sarins.\\nApril 1 6th.\\nUnion, organisation, spiritual and ma-\\nterial, a far nobler than any Popedom or\\nFeudalism in their truest days, I never\\ndoubt, is coming for the world sure to\\ncome. But on Fact alone, not on Sem-\\nblance and Simulacrum, will it be able\\neither to come, or to stand when come.\\nWith union grounded on falsehood, and\\nordering us to speak and act lies, we will\\nnot have anything to do. Peace? A\\nbrutal lethargy is peaceable, the noisome\\ngrave is peaceable. We hope for a liv-\\ning peace, not a dead one.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARL YLE 8i\\nApril I /th.\\nFor Justice and Reverence are the\\neverlasting central Law of this Universe\\nand to forget them, and have all the\\nUniverse against one, God and one s own\\nself for enemies, and only the Devil and\\nthe Dragons for friends, is not that a\\nlameness like few?\\nPast and Present.\\nApril i8th.\\nMan is not what one calls a happy ani-\\nmal his appetite for sweet victual is so\\nenormous. How, in this wild Universe,\\nwhich storms in on him, infinite, vague-\\nmenacing, shall poor man find, say not\\nhappiness, but existence, and footing to\\nstand on, if it be not by girding himself\\ntogether for continual endeavour and en-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ndurance? Woe, if in his heart there\\ndwelt no devout Faith if the word Duty\\nhas lost its meaning for him For as to\\nthis of Sentimentalism, so useful for\\nweeping with over romances and on\\npathetic occasions, it otherwise verily will\\navail nothing nay less. The healthy\\nheart that said to itself, How healthy\\nam I was already fallen into the fatal-\\nest sort of disease. Is not Sentimental-\\nism twin-sister to Cant, if not one and\\nthe same with it? Is not Cant the\\nmateria prima of the Devil from which\\nall falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations\\nbody themselves; from which no true\\nthing can come? For Cant is itself\\nproperly a double-distilled Lie; the sec-\\nond-power of a Lie.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 83\\nApril ipth.\\nGenius is the inspired gift of God.\\nIt is the clearer presence of God Most\\nHigh in a man. Dim, potential in all\\nmen; in this man it has become clear,\\nactual.\\nFas^ and Present.\\nApril 20th.\\nThe Situation that has not its Duty, its\\nIdeal, was never yet occupied by man.\\nYes here, in this poor, miserable, ham-\\npered, despicable Actual, wherein thou\\neven now standest, here or nowhere is\\nthy Ideal work it out therefrom and\\nworking, believe, live, be free.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nApril 2ist.\\nMy friend, all speech and rumor is\\nshortlived, foolish, untrue. Genuine\\nWork alone, what thou workest faith-\\nfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty\\nFounder and World-Builder himself.\\nStand thou by that and let Fame\\nand the rest of it go prating.\\nPast and Present.\\nApril 22d.\\nWe say not that but we do say, that\\nill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat,\\nis battle (in a good or in a bad cause)\\nwith bad success; that health alone is\\nvictory. Let all men, if they can man-\\nage it, contrive to be healthy He who\\nin what cause soever sinks into pain and\\ndisease, let him take thought of it; let", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 85\\nhim know well that it is not good he has\\narrived at yet, but surely evil, may, or\\nmay not be, on the way towards good.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nApril 27d.\\nAlas, when madness of choler has gone\\nthrough the blood of men, and gibbets\\nhave swung on this side and on that,\\nwhat will a parchment Decree and Lafay-\\nette Amnesty do? Oblivious Lethe flows\\nnot above ground!\\nFrench Revolution.\\nApril 24th.\\nInsincere Speech, truly, is the prime\\nmaterial of insincere Action. Action\\nhangs, as it were, dissolved in Speech,\\nin Thought whereof Speech is the shad-\\now; and precipitates itself therefrom.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nThe kind of Speech in a man betokens\\nthe kind of Action you will get from him.\\nOur Speech, in these modern days, has\\nbecome amazing. Johnson complained,\\nNobody speaks in earnest, Sir; there is\\nno serious conversation.\\nPast and Present.\\nApril 2^th.\\nStrange enough how creatures of the\\nhuman-kind shut their eyes to plainest\\nfacts; and by the mere inertia of Obliv-\\nion and Stupidity live at ease in the\\nmidst of Wonders and Terrors. But\\nindeed man is, and was always, a block-\\nhead and dullard much readier to feel\\nand digest, than to think and consider.\\nPrejudice, which he pretends to hate, is", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 87\\nhis absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-\\nwont everywhere leads him by the nose:\\nthus let but a Rising of the Sun, let but\\na Creation of the World happen timce,\\nand it ceases to be marvellous, to be note-\\nworthy, or noticeable.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nApril 26th.\\nIsolation is the sum-total of wretched-\\nness to man. To be cut off, to be left\\nsolitary to have a world alien, not your\\nworld all a hostile camp for you not a\\nhome at all, of hearts and faces who are\\nyours, whose you are! It is the fright-\\nfulest enchantment; too truly a work of\\nthe Evil One.\\nPasf and Present.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nApril 2ph.\\nShall Courtesy be done only to the\\nrich, and only by the rich? In Good-\\nbreeding, which differs, if at all, from\\nHigh-breeding, only as it gracefully re-\\nmembers the rights of others, rather than\\ngracefully insists on its own rights, I\\ndiscern no special connection with wealth\\nor birth but rather that it lies in human\\nnature itself, and is due from all men\\ntowards all men.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nApril 28th.\\nLet Cant cease, at all risks and at\\nall costs: till Cant cease, nothing else\\ncan begin. Of human Criminals, in\\nthese centuries, writes the Moralist,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 89\\nI find but one unforgivable: the\\nQuack.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nApril 2^th.\\nThe Land is Mother of us all nour-\\nishes, shelters, gladdens, lovingly en-\\nriches us all in how many ways, from\\nour first wakening to our last sleep on\\nher blessed mother-bosom, does she, as\\nwith blessed mother-arms enfold us\\nall.\\nPast and Present.\\nApril soth.\\nOur life is compassed round with Ne-\\ncessity yet is the meaning of Life itself\\nno other than Freedom, than Voluntary\\nForce thus have we a warfare in the", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbeginning, especially, a hard-fought\\nbattle. For the God-given mandate,\\nWork thou in IVelldoiug, lies mysteri-\\nously written, in Promethian, Prophetic\\nCharacters, in our hearts and leaves us\\nno rest, night or day, till it be disciphered\\nand obeyed till it burn forth, in our\\nconduct, a visible, acted Gospel of Free-\\ndom.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "MAY", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "May 1st.\\nFor ours is a most fictile world; and\\nman is the most fingent plastic of creat-\\nures. A world not fixable; not fathom-\\nable! An unfathomable Somewhat,\\nwhich is Not we; which we can work\\nwith, and live amidst, and model,\\nmiraculously in our miraculous Being,\\nand name World. But if the very\\nRocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic\\nteaches), are, in strict language, made by\\nthose outward Senses of ours, how much\\nmore, by the Inward Sense, are all Phe-\\nnomena of the spiritual kind: Dignities,\\nAuthorities, Holies, Unholies Which\\ninward sense, moreover is not permanent\\nlike the outward ones, but forever grow-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ning and changing. Does not the Black\\nAfrican take of Sticks and Old Clothes\\n(say, exported Monmouth-Strect cast-\\nclothes) what will suffice, and of these,\\ncunningly combining them, fabricate for\\nhimself an Eidolon (Idol, or Thing\\nSeen), and name it Muinbo-Junibo;\\nwhich he can henceforth pray to. with\\nupturned awestruck eye, not without\\nhope The white European mocks but\\nought rather to consider and see\\nwhether he, at home, could -not do the like\\na little more wisely.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMay 2d\\nFormulas too, as we call them, have a\\nreality in Human Life. They are real\\nas the very skin and muscular tissue of a", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 95\\nMan s Life and a most blessed indispen-\\nsable thing, so long as they have vitality\\nwithal, and are a living skin and tissue\\nto him! No man, or man s life, can go\\nabroad and do business in the world\\nwithout skin and tissues. No; first of\\nall, these have to fashion themselves,\\nas indeed they spontaneously and inevi-\\ntably do. Foam itself, and this is worth\\nthinking of, can harden into oyster-shell\\nall living objects do by necessity form\\nto themselves a skin.\\nPast and Present.\\nMay ^d.\\nGreat truly is the Actual is the Thing\\nthat has rescued itself from bottomless\\ndeeps of theory and possibility, and\\nstands there as a definite indisputable", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nFact, whereby men do work and live,\\nor once did so. Wisely shall men cleave\\nto that, while it will endure and quit\\nit with regret, when it gives way under\\nthem. Rash enthusiast of Change, be-\\nware Hast thou well considered all\\nthat Habit does in this life of ours; how\\nall Knowledge and all Practice hang\\nwondrous over infinite abysses of the\\nUnknown, Impracticable and our whole\\nbeing is an infinite abyss, overarched by\\nHabit, as by a thin Earth-rind, labori-\\nously built together?\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMay 4th.\\nAll Works, each in their degree, are a\\nmaking of Madness sane truly enough", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "FROxM THOMAS CARLYLE 97\\na religious operation which cannot be\\nn.\\nPast and Present.\\ncarried on without rehgion\\nMay 5th.\\nThat great mystery of Time^ were\\nithere no other; the ilHmitable, silent,\\nnever-resting thing called Time, rolling,\\nrushing on, swift, silent, like an all-em-\\nbracing ocean-tide, on which we and all\\nthe Universe swim like exhalations, like\\napparitions which are, and then are not:\\nthis is forever very literally a miracle;\\na thing to strike us dumb, for we have\\nno word to speak about it.\\nHeroes and Hero lVorshtJ\\nMay 6th.\\nThe Past is a dim indubitable fact:\\nthe Future too is one, only dimmer; nay", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "93 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nproperly it is the sam^ fact in new dress\\nand development. For the Present holds\\nin it both the whole Past and the whole\\nFuture; as the Life-tree Igdrasil,\\nwide-waving, many-toned, has it roots\\ndown deep in the Death-kingdoms,\\namong the oldest dead dust of men, and\\nwith its boughs reaches always beyond\\nthe stars and in all times and places\\nis one and the same Life-tree\\nPast and Present.\\nMay yth.\\nIt is well said, in every sense, that a\\nman s religion is the chief fact with re-\\ngard to him. A man s or a nation of\\nmen s. By religion I do not mean here\\nthe church-creed he professes, the articles\\nof faith which he will sign and, in words\\nor otherwise, assert; not this wholly, in", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 99\\nmany cases not this at all. We see men\\nof all kinds of professed creeds attain to\\nalmost all degrees of worth or worthless-\\nness under each or any of them. This is\\nnot what I call religion, this profession\\nand assertion which is often only a pro-\\nfession and assertion from the outworks\\nof the man, from the mere argumentative\\nregion of him, if even so deep as that.\\nBut the thing a man does practically be-\\nlieve (and this is often enough without\\nasserting it even to himself, much less to\\nothers) the thing a man does practically\\nlay to heart, and know^ for certain, con-\\ncerning his vital relations to this mysteri-\\nous Universe, and his duty and destiny\\nthere, that is in all cases the primary\\nthing for him, and creatively determines\\nall the rest.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "loo BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMay 8th.\\nThe Land, by mere hired Governors,\\ncannot be got governed. You cannot\\nhire men to govern the Land it is by a\\nmission not contracted for in the Stock-\\nExchange, but felt in their own hearts\\nas coming out of Heaven, that men can\\ngovern a Land.\\nPast and Present.\\nMay gth.\\nBy Symbols, accordingly, is man\\nguided and commanded, made happy,\\nmade wretched. He everywhere finds\\nhimself encompassed with Symbols,\\nrecognised as such or not recognised\\nthe Universe is but one vast Symbol of\\nGod nay, if thou wilt have it, what is\\nMan himself but a Symbol of God; is", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE loi\\nnot all that he does symbolical a revela-\\ntion to Sense of the mystic god-given\\nForce that is in him a Gospel of Free-\\ndom, which he, the Messias of Nature,\\npreaches, as he can, by act and word?\\nNot a Hut he builds but is the visible\\nembodiment of a Thought; but bears\\nvisible record of invisible things but is,\\nin the transcendental sense, symbolical\\nas well as real.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMay loth.\\nThe first of all Gospels is this, that a\\nLie cannot endure forever.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMay nth.\\nBut indeed one of the infalliblest fruits\\nof Unwisdom in a Nation is that it can-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "I02 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nnot get the use of what Wisdom is actu-\\nally in it that it is not governed by the\\nwisest it has, who alone have a divine\\nright to govern in all Nations but by\\nthe sham-wisest, or even by the openly\\nnot-so-wise if they are handiest other-\\nwise!\\nPast and Present.\\nMay 1 2th.\\nA man, be the Heavens ever praised,\\nis sufficient foi himself; yet were ten\\nmen, united in Love, capable of being\\nand of doing what ten thousand singly\\nwould fail in. Infinite is the help man\\ncan yield to man.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMay 13 th.\\nA great soul, any sincere soul, knows\\nnot what he is, alternates between the", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 103\\nhighest height and the lowest depth can\\nof all things the least measure Himself\\nWhat others take him for, and what he\\nguesses that he may be these two items\\nstrangely act on one another, help to\\ndetermine one another. With all men\\nreverently admiring him; with his own\\nwild soul full of noble ardours and\\naffections, of whirlwind chaotic darkness\\nand glorious new light; a divine Uni-\\nverse bursting all into godlike beauty\\nround him, and no man to whom the\\nlike ever had befallen, what could he\\nthink himself to be?\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nMay 14th.\\nThe Hill I first saw the Sun rise over,\\nwhen the Sun and I and all things were\\nyet in their auroral hour, who can di-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nvorce me from it? Mystic, deep as the\\nworld s centre, are the roots I have\\nstruck into my Native Soil no tree that\\ngrows is rooted so. From noblest\\npatriotism to humblest industrial Mech-\\nanism; from highest dying for your\\ncountry, to lowest quarrying and coal-\\nboring for it, a Nation s Life depends\\nupon its Land. Again and again we\\nhave to say, there can be no true Aris-\\ntocracy but must possess the Land.\\nPast and Present.\\nMay Ijfll.\\nFolly is that wisdom which is wise\\nonly behindhand.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMay i6th.\\nThe higher the Wisdom, the closer\\nwas its neighborhood and kindred with", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 105\\nmere Insanity; literally so, and thou\\nwilt, with a speechless feeling, observe\\nhow highest Wisdom, struggling up into\\nthis world, has oftentimes carried such\\ntinctures and adhesions of Insanity still\\ncleaving to it hither!\\nPast and Present.\\nMay 17th,\\nIt is an everlasting duty, valid in our\\nday as in that, the duty of being\\nbrave. Valour is still value. The first\\nduty for a man is still that of subduing\\nFear. We must get rid of Fear we can-\\nnot act at all till then. A man s acts are\\nslavish, not true but specious; his very\\nthoughts are false, he thinks too as a\\nslave and coward, till he have got Fear\\nunder his feet.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "io6 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMay 1 8th.\\nFor if Government is, so to speak, the\\noutward skin of the Body PoHtic, hold-\\ning the whole together and protecting it\\nand all your Craft-Guilds and Associa-\\ntions for Industry, of hand or of head,\\nare the Fleshly Clothes, the muscular\\nand osseous Tissues, (lying under such\\nskin), whereby Society stands and\\nworks then is Religion the inmost\\nPericardial and Nervous Tissue, which\\nministers Life and Warm Circulation to\\nthe whole.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nMay igfh.\\nDay s-wages for Day s-work? con-\\ntinues he: The progress of Human So-\\nciety consists even in this same, The\\nbetter and better apportioning of wages", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 107\\nto work. Give me this, you have given\\nme all. Pay to every man accurately\\nwhat he has worl ,d for, what he has\\nearned and done and deserved, to this\\nman broad lands and honours, to that\\nman high gibbets and treadmills: what\\nmore have I to ask? Heaven s King-\\ndom, which we daily pray for, has come\\nGod s will is done on Earth even as it\\nis in Heaven\\nPast and Presetit.\\nMay 20th.\\nSee deep enough, and you see musi-\\ncally; the heart of Nature being every-\\nwhere music, if you can only reach it.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship,\\nMay 2ist,\\nThe opinion that is sure of itself, as\\nthe meagerest opinion may the soonest", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "io8 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbe, is the one to which all men will rally.\\nGreat is Belief, were it never so meagre\\nand leads captive the doubting heart!\\nFrench Revolution.\\nMay 22d.\\nOn the whole, that humorist in the\\nMoral Essay was not so far out, who\\ndetermined on honouring health only\\nand so instead of humbling himself to\\nthe high-born, to the rich and well-\\ndressed, insisted on doffing hat to the\\nhealthy coroneted carriages with pale\\nfaces in them passed by as failures,\\nmiserable and lamentable trucks with\\nruddy-cheeked strength dragging at them\\nwere greeted as successful and vener-\\nable. For does not health mean har-\\nmony, the synonym of all that is true,\\njustly-ordered, good is it not, in some", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 109\\nsense, the net-total, as shown by experi-\\nment, of whatever worth is in us The\\nhealthy man is the most meritorious pro-\\nduct of Nature so far as he goes. A\\nhealthy body is good but a soul in right\\nhealth, it is the thing beyond all others\\nto be prayed for; the blessedest thing\\nthis earth receives of Heaven.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nMay 23d.\\nIt has ever been held the highest\\nwisdom for a man not merely to submit\\nto Necessity, Necessity will make him\\nsubmit, but to know and believe well\\nthat the stern thing that Necessity had\\nordered was the wisest, the best, the thing\\nwanted there. To ease his frantic pre-\\ntention of scanning this great God s-\\nWorld in his small fraction of a brain;", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "no BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nto know that it had verily, though deep\\nbeyond his soundings, a Just Law, that\\nthe soul of it was Good; that his part\\nin it was to conform to the Law of the\\nWhole, and in devout silence follow that\\nnot questioning it, obeying it as unques-\\ntionable.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nMay 24th.\\nFor Nature and Fact, not Redtape and\\nSemblance, are to this hour the basis of\\nman s life and on those, through never\\nsuch strata of these, man and his life and\\nall his interests do. sooner or later, in-\\nfallibly come to rest, and to be sup-\\nported or be swallowed according as\\nthey agree with those. The question is\\nasked of them, not, How do you agree\\nwith Downing-street and accredited", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 1 1 1\\nSemblance? but, how do you agree with\\nGod s Universe and the actual Reality\\nof things?\\nPast and Present.\\nMay 25th.\\nIndeed what wonders lie in every Day,\\nhad we the sight, as happily we have\\nnot, to decipher: for is not every\\nmeanest day the conflux of two Eter-\\nnities\\nFrench Revolution,\\nMay 26th.\\nIs there a man who pretends to live\\nluxuriously housed up screened from all\\nwork, from want, danger, hardship, the\\nvictory over which is what we name\\nwork; he himself to sit serene, amid\\ndown-bolsters and appliances, and have\\nail his work and battling done by other", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nmen? And such man calls himself a\\nnoh\\\\e-vc\\\\2in His fathers worked for\\nhim, he says or successfully gambled for\\nhim: here he sits; professes, not in sor-\\nrow but in pride, that he and his have\\ndone no work, time out of mind. It is\\nthe law of the land, and is thought to\\nbe the law of the Universe, that he, alone\\nof recorded men, shall have no task laid\\non him, except that of eating his cooked\\nvictuals, and not flinging himself out of\\nwindow. Once more I will say, there\\nwas no stranger spectacle ever shown\\nunder this Sun.\\nPast and Present.\\nMay 2yth.\\nBelief is great, life-giving. The his-\\ntory of a Nation becomes fruitful, soul-\\nelevating, great, so soon as it believes.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 113\\nMay 28th.\\nThere is one preacher who does preach\\nwith effect, and gradually persuade all\\npersons: his name is Destiny, is Divine\\nProvidence, and his Sermon the inflex-\\nible Course of Things. Experience does\\ntake dreadfully high school-wages but\\nhe teaches like no other\\nPast and Present.\\nMay 2pth,\\nPoor human nature! Is not a man s\\nwalking, in truth, always that: a suc-\\ncession of falls Man can do no other.\\nIn this wild element of a Life, he has to\\nstruggle onwards; now fallen deep-\\nabased and ever, with tears, repentance,\\nwith bleeding heart, he has to rise again,\\nstruggle again still onwards. That this", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nstruggle he a faithful unconquerable one\\nthat is the question of questions.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nMay ^oth.\\nThe latest Gospel in this world is,\\nKnow thy work and do it. Know thy-\\nself: long enough has that poor self\\nof thine tormented thee thou wilt never\\nget to know it, I believe! Think it\\nnot thy business, this of knowing thyself\\nthou art an unknowable individual know\\nwhat thou canst work at and work at\\nit like a Hercules That will be thy\\nbetter plan.\\n71/03; JJ^/.\\nIt is most true that all available\\nAuthority is mystic in its conditions, and\\ncomes by the grace of God.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "JUNE", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "nj\\nJune 1st.\\nGreat meanwhile is the moment, when\\ntidings of Freedom reach us when the\\nlong-enthralled soul, from amid its\\nchains and squalid stagnancy, arises,\\nwere it still only in blindness and bewil-\\nderment, and swears by Him that made\\nit, that it will be free! Free? Under-\\nstand that well, it is the deep command-\\nment, dimmer or clearer, of our whole\\nbeing, to be free. Freedom is the one\\npurport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of\\nall man s struggles, toilings and suffer-\\nings, in this Earth. Yes, supreme is\\nsuch a moment (if thou have known it)\\nfirst vision as of a flame-girt Sinai, in\\nthis our waste Pilgrimage, which", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "ii8 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthenceforth wants not its pillar of cloud\\nby day and pillar of fire by night\\nFrench Revolution,\\nJune 2d.\\nSure enough, of all paths a man could\\nstrike into, there is, at any given moment,\\na best part for every man a thing which,\\nhere and now, it were of all things wisest\\nfor him to do which could he be but\\nled or driven to do, he were then doing\\n*1ike a man, as we phrase it all men\\nand gods agreeing with him, the whole\\nUniverse virtually exclaiming Well-done\\nto him His success, in such case, were\\ncomplete his felicity a maximum. This\\npath, to find this path and walk in it, is\\nthe one thing needful for him, Whatso-\\never forwards him in that, let it come to", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 119\\nhim even in the shape of blows and\\nspurnings, is Hberty: whatsoever hin-\\nders him, were it wardmotes, open-ves-\\ntries, poUbooths, tremendous cheers,\\nrivers of heavy-wet, is slavery.\\nPast and Preseyit.\\nJune ^d.\\nIt seems to me a most mournful hy-\\npothesis, that of quackery giving birth\\nto any faith, even in savage men.\\nQuackery gives birth to nothing; gives\\ndeath to all things. We shall not see\\ninto the true heart of anything, if we\\nlook merely at the quackeries of it; if\\nwe do not reject the quackeries alto-\\ngether; as mere diseases, corruptions,\\nwith which our and all men s sole duty\\nis to have done with them, to sweep", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "I20 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthem out of our thoughts as out of our\\npractice. Man everywhere is the born\\nenemy of Hes.\\nHeroes and Htro Worship.\\nJune 4th.\\nVeracity, true simpHcity of heart, how\\nvaluable are these always He that\\nspeaks what \\\\s really in him, will find\\nmen to listen, though under never such\\nimpediments.\\nPast and Present.\\nJune ^th.\\nThought, true labour of any kind,\\nhighest virtue itself, is it not the\\ndaughter of Pain? Born as out of the\\nblack whirlwind true effort, in fact, as\\nof a captive struggling to free himself:", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 121\\nthat is Thought. 4n all ways we are to\\nbecome perfect through suffering/\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJune 6th.\\nPosterity can do simply nothing for a\\nman.\\nPast and Present.\\nJune yth.\\nThe oak grows silently, in the forest,\\na thousand years only in the thousandth\\nyear, when the woodman arrives with his\\naxe, is there heard an echoing through\\nthe solitude; and the oak announces it-\\nself when, with a far-sounding crash, it\\nfalls. How silent too was the planting\\nof the acorn; scattered from the lap of\\nsome wandering wind Nay, when our\\noak flowered, or put on its leaves (its", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nglad Events), what shout of proclama-\\ntion could there be? Hardly from the\\nmost observant a word of recognition.\\nThese things hefell not, they were slowly\\ndone; not in an hour, but through the\\nflight of days what was to be said of it\\nThis hour seemed altogether as the last\\nwas, as the next would be.\\nIt is thus everywhere that foolish\\nRumour babbles not of what was done,\\nbut of what was misdone or undone and\\nfoolish History (ever, more or less, the\\nwritten epitomised synopsis of Rumour)\\nknows so little that were not as well un-\\nknown. Attila, Invasions, Walter-the-\\nPenniless, Crusades, Sicilian, Vespers,\\nThirty- Years Wars mere sin and\\nmisery not work, but hindrance of work\\nFor the Earth, all this while, was yearly", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 123\\ngreen and yellow with her kind harvests\\nthe hand of the craftsman, the mind of\\nthe thinker rested not: and so, after all,\\nand in spite of all, we have this so glori-\\nous high-domed blossoming World con-\\ncerning which poor History may well\\nask, with wonder, Whence it came?\\nShe knows so little of it, knows so much\\nof what obstructed it, what would have\\nrendered it impossible. Such, neverthe-\\nless, by necessity or foolish choice, is\\nher rule and practice; whereby that\\nparadox, Happy the people whose\\nannals are vacant, is not without its true\\nside.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJune 8th.\\nThink, would zve believe, and take\\nwith us as our life-guidance, an allegory,", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\na poetic sport Not sport but earnest is\\nwhat we should require. It is a most\\nearnest thing to be ahve in this world\\nto die is not sport for a man. Man s life\\nnever was a sport to him it was a stern\\nreality, altogether a serious matter to be\\nalive\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJune ptii.\\nValiant Wisdom tilling and draining;\\nescorted by owl-eyed Pedantry, by owl-\\nish and vulturish and many other forms\\nof Folly the valiant husbandman assidu-\\nously tilling: the blind greedy enemy\\ntoo assiduously sowing tares!\\nFast and Present.\\nJune 1 0th.\\nAll that he does, and brings to pass,\\nis the vesture of a thought. This London", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 1 25\\nCity, with all its houses, palaces, steam-\\nengines, cathedrals, and huge immeasur-\\nable traffic and tumult, what is it but a\\nThought, but millions of Thoughts made\\ninto One; a huge immeasurable Spirit\\nof a Thought^ embodied in brick, in\\niron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments,\\nHackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and\\nthe rest of it! Not a brick was made\\nbut some man had to think of the mak-\\ning of that brick.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJune nth.\\nNo sadder proof can be given by a\\nman of his own littleness than disbelief\\nin great men. There is no sadder symp-\\ntom of a generation than such general\\nblindness to the spiritual lightning, with", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nfaith only in the heap of barren dead\\nfuel. It is the last consummation of\\nunbelief. In all epochs of the world s\\nhistory, we shall find the Great Man to\\nhave been the indispensable saviour of\\nhis epoch the lightnin^:^, without which\\nthe fuel never would have burnt. The\\nHistory of the World, I said already,\\nwas the Biography of Great Men.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJune I2th.\\nFirst get your man all is got he can\\nlearn to do all things, from making boots,\\nto decreeing judgments, governing com-\\nmunities and will do them like a man.\\nCatch your no-man alas, have you not\\ncaught the terriblest Tartar in the world\\nPerhaps all the terribler, the quieter and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARLYLE 127\\ngentler he looks. For the mischief that\\none blockhead, that every blockhead does,\\nin a world so feracious, teeming with\\nendless results are ours, no ciphering will\\nsum up.\\nPast and Present.\\nJune i^th.\\nHow delicate, decent English Biogra-\\nphy, bless its mealy mouth! A Damo-\\ncles sword of Respectability hangs for-\\never over the poor English Life-writer\\n(as it does over poor English Life in\\ngeneral), and reduces him to the verge\\nof paralysis. Thus it has been said,\\nThere are no English lives worth read-\\ning except those of Players, who by the\\nnature of the case have bidden Respect-\\nability good-day. The English biogra-\\npher has long felt that if in writmg his", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMan s Biography, he wrote down any-\\nthing that could by possibihty offend any\\nman, he had written wrong.\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nJune 14th.\\nThe Working Aristocracy must strike\\ninto a new path must understand that\\nmoney alone is not the representative\\neither of man s success in the world, or\\nof man s duties to man and reform their\\nown selves from top to bottom, if they\\nwish England reformed.\\nJ^ast and Present.\\nJune 13th.\\nFaults? The greatest of faults, I\\nshould say, is to be conscious of none.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 1 29\\nJune i6th.\\nWhen an individual is miserable, what\\ndoes it most of all behove him to do?\\nTo complain of this man or of that,\\nof this thing or of that? To fill the\\nworld and street with lamentation,\\nobjurgation? Not so at all; the re-\\nverse of so. All moralists advise him\\nnot to complain of any person or of any\\nthing, but of himself only. He is to\\nknow of a truth that being miserable he\\nhas been unwise, he. Had he faithfully\\nfollowed Nature and her Laws, Nature,\\never true to her Laws, would have\\nyielded fruit and increase and felicity to\\nhim: but he has followed other than\\nNature s Laws; and now Nature, her\\npatience with him being ended, leaves\\nhim desolate: answers with very em-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "I30 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nphatic significance to him No. Not by\\nthis road, my son by another road shalt\\nthou attain well-being: this, thou per-\\nceivest is the road to ill-being quit this\\nSo do all moralists advise that the\\nman penitently say to himself first of all,\\nBehold I was not wise enough I quitted\\nthe laws of Fact, which are also called\\nthe Laws of God, and mistook them for\\nthe Laws of Sham and Semblance, which\\nare called the Devil s Laws therefore\\nam I here\\nPast and Present.\\nJune Tph.\\nPopularity is as a blaze of illumina-\\ntion, or alas, of conflagration, kindled\\nround a man shozving what is in him\\nnot putting the smallest item more into", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 131\\nhim often abstracting much from him\\nconflagrating the poor man himself into\\nashes and caput mortuum!\\nSir Walter Scott.\\nJune i8th.\\nA man preaching from his earnest soul\\ninto the earnest souls of men is not this\\nvirtually the essence of all Churches\\nwhatsoever? The nakedest, savagest,\\nreality I say, is preferable to any sem-\\nblance, however dignified. Besides, it\\nwill clothe itself with due semblance by\\nand by, if it be real. No fear of that;\\nactually no fear at all. Given the living\\nman, there will be found clothes for him\\nhe will find himself clothes.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJune igtii.\\nI When was a god found agreeable\\nto everybody? The regular way is to\\nhang, kill, crucify your gods, ?nd execrate\\nand trample them under your stupid\\nhoofs for a century or two; till you dis-\\ncover that they are gods, and then take\\nto braying over them, still in a very long-\\neared manner!\\nPast and Prtsent.\\nJune 20th.\\nI say, this is yet the only true morality\\nknown. A man is right and invincible,\\nvirtuous and on the road towards sure\\nconquest, precisely while he joins him-\\nself to the great deep Law of the World,\\nin spite of all superficial laws, temporary\\nappearances, profit-and-loss calculations", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 133\\nhe is victorious while he cooperates with\\nthat great central Law, not victorious\\notherwise: and surely his first chance\\nof cooperating with it, or getting into\\nthe course of it, is to know with his whole\\nsoul that it is; that it is good, and alone\\ngood\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJune 2 1 St.\\nBut indeed Conviction, were it never\\nso excellent, is worthless till it convert\\nitself into Conduct. Nay properly Con-\\nviction is not possible till then inasmuch\\nas all Speculation is by nature endless,\\nformless, a vortex amid vortices only\\nby a felt indubitable certainty of Ex-\\nperience does it find any centre to revolve\\nround, and so fashion itself into a system.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJune 22d.\\nDouble, double, toil and trouble; that\\nis the life of all governors that really\\ngovern not the spoil of victory, only the\\nglorious toil of battle can be theirs.\\nPast and Present.\\nJune 2jd.\\nHas not a deeper meditation taught\\ncertain of every clime and age, that the\\nWhere and When, so mysteriously in-\\nseparable from all our thoughts, are but\\nsuperficial terrestrial adhesions to\\nthought; that the Seer may discern them\\nwhere they mount up out of the celestial\\nEverywhere and Forever: have not all\\nnations conceived their God as Omni-\\npresent and Eternal as existing in a\\nuniverse Here, an everlasting Now?", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 133\\nThink well, thou too wilt find that\\nSpace is but a mode of our human Sense,\\nso likewise Time; there is no Space and\\nno Time We are we know not what\\nlight sparkles floating in the aether of\\nDeity!\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJune 24th.\\nIs not all work of man in this world a\\nmaking of Order? The carpenter finds\\nrough trees; shapes them, constrains\\nthem into square fitness, into purpose\\nand use. We all are born enemies of\\nDisorder: it is tragical for us all to be\\nconcerned in image-breaking and down-\\npulling for the Great Man, more a man\\nthan we, it is doubly tragical.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJune 2^th.\\nThis green flowery rock-built earth,\\nthe trees, the mountains, rivers, many-\\nsounding seas; that great deep sea of\\nazure that swims overhead the winds\\nsweeping through it; the black cloud\\nfashioning itself together, now pouring\\nout fire, now hail and rain what is it\\nAy, what? A bottom we do not yet\\nknow; we can never know at all. It is\\nnot by our superior insight that we\\nescape the difficulty it is by our superior\\nlevity, our inattention, our ivant of in-\\nsight. It is by not thinking that we cease\\nto wonder at it. Hardened round us,\\nencasing wholly every notion we form,\\nis a wrappage of traditions, hearsays,\\nmere words. We call that fire of the\\nblack thunder-cloud electricity, and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARLYLE 137\\nlecture learnedly about it, and grind the\\nlike of it out of glass and silk but zvhat\\nis it? What made it? Whence comes\\nit Whither goes it Science has done\\nmuch for us but it is a poor science that\\nwould hide from us the great deep sacred\\ninfinitude of Nescience, whither we can\\nnever penetrate, on which all science\\nswims as a mere superficial film. This\\nworld, after all our science and sciences,\\nis still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable,\\nmagical and more, to whosoever will\\nthink of it.\\nHeroes and Hero V/orshif:\\nJune 26th.\\nFoolish men imagine that because\\njudgment for an evil thing is delayed^\\nthere is no justice, but an accidental one,", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nhere below. Judgment for an evil thing\\nis many times delayed some day or two,\\nsome century or two, but it is sure as\\nlife, it is sure as death! In the centre\\nof the world-whirlwind, verily now as\\nin the oldest days, dwells and speaks a\\nGod.\\nPast and Present,\\nJune 2jth.\\nObserve, however, that of man s whole\\nterrestrial possessions and attainments,\\nunspeakably the noblest are his Symbols,\\ndivine or divine-seeming; under which\\nhe marches and fights, with victorious\\nassurance, in his life-battle what we can\\ncall his Realized Ideals. Of which real-\\nized ideals, omitting the rest, consider\\nonly these two: his Church, or spiritual", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 139\\nGuidance his Kingship, or temporal one.\\nThe Church what a word was there\\nricher than Golconda and the treasures\\nof the world! In the heart of the re-\\nmotest mountains rises the little Kirk;\\nthe Dead all slumbering round it, under\\ntheir white memorial-stones, in hope of\\na happy resurrection: dull wert thou,\\nO Reader, if never in any hour (say of\\nmoaning midnight, when such Kirk hung\\nspectral in the sky, and Being was as if\\nswallowed up of Darkness) it spoke to\\nthee things unspeakable, that went into\\nthy soul s soul. Strong was he that\\nhad a Church, what we can call a\\nChurch he stood thereby, though in the\\ncentre of Immensities, in the conflux of\\nEternities, yet manlike towards God and\\nman; the vague shoreless Universe had", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "I40 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbecome for him a firm city, and dwelling\\nwhich he knew. Such virtue was in\\nBelief; in these words, well spoken: 1\\nbelieve. Well might men prize their\\nCredo, and raise stateliest Temples for\\nit, and reverend Hierarchies, and give it\\nthe tithe of their substance it was worth\\nliving for and dying for.\\nFrench Resolution.\\nJune jSth.\\nNo man works save under conditions.\\nThe sculptor cannot set his own free\\nThought before us but his Thought as\\nhe could translate it into the stone that\\nwas given with the tools that were\\ngiven. Disjecta membra are all that we\\nfind of any Poet, or of any man.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 141\\nJune 2gth.\\nNature, Universe, Destiny, Existence,\\nhowsoever v^e name this grand unname-\\nable Fact in the midst of which we Hve\\nand struggle, is as a heavenly bride and\\nconquest to the wise and brave, to them\\nwho can discern her behests and do them\\na destroying fiend to them who cannot.\\nAnswer her riddle, it is well with thee.\\nAnswer it not, pass on regarding it not,\\nit will answer itself; the solution for thee\\nis a thing of teeth and claws.\\nPast and Present.\\nJune ^oth.\\nBut of those decadent ages in which\\nno Ideal either grows or blossoms?\\nWhen Belief and Loyalty have passed\\naway, and only the cant and false echo of\\nthem remains; and all Solemnity has", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbecome Pageantry; and the Creed of\\nipersons in authority has become one of\\ntwo things: an ImbeciHty or a Macchi-\\navehsm? Alas, of these ages World-\\n(History can take no notice they have to\\nbecome compressed more and more, and\\nfinally suppressed in the Annals of Man-\\nkind blotted out as spurious, which\\nindeed they are. Hapless ages wherein,\\nif ever in any, it is an unhappiness to be\\nborn. To be born, and to learn only,\\nby every tradition and example, that\\nGod s Universe is Belial s and a Lie; and\\nthe Supreme Quack the hierarch of\\nmen In which mournfulest faith, never-\\ntheless, do we not see whole generations\\n(two, and sometimes even three success-\\nively) live, what they call living; and van-\\nish, without chance of reappearance\\nFrench Revolution,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "JULY", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "July 1st.\\nNay, instead of shrieking more, it\\nwere perhaps edifying to remark, on\\nthe other side, what a singular thing\\nCustoms (in Latin, Mores) are; and\\nhow fitly the Virtue, Vir-tus, Manhood\\nor Worth, that is in a man, is called\\nhis Morality, or Customariness. Fell\\nSlaughter, one of the most authentic\\nproducts of the Pit you would say, once\\ngive it Customs, becomes War, with\\nLaws of War; and is Customary and\\nMoral enough; and red individuals\\ncarry the tools of it girt round their\\nhaunches, not without an air of pride,\\nwhich do thou nowise blame. While,\\nsee! so long as it is but dressed in", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nhodden and russet; and revolution, less\\nfrequent than War, has not yet got its\\nLaws of Revolution, but the hodden\\nor russet individuals are Uncustomary\\nO shrieking beloved brother block-\\nheads of Mankind, let us close those\\nwide mouths of ours; let us cease\\nshrieking, and begin considering!\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJuly 2d.\\nAgain, what meaning lies in Colour!\\nFrom the soberest drab to the high-\\nflaming scarlet, spiritual idiosyncrasies\\nunfold themselves in choice of Colour;\\nif the Cut betoken Intellect and Talent,\\nso does the Colour betoken Temper\\nand Heart. In all which, among na-\\ntions as among individuals, there is an", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 147\\nincessant, indubitable, though infinitely\\ncomplex working of Cause and Effect;\\nevery snip of the Scissors has been\\nregulated and prescribed by ever-active\\nInfluences, which doubtless to Intelli-\\ngence of a superior order are neither\\ninvisible nor illegible.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJuly ^d.\\nDeep, far deeper than Supply-and-\\ndemand, are Laws, Obligations sacred\\nas Man s Life itself: these also, if you\\nwill continue to do work, you shall\\nnow learn and obey. He that will\\nlearn them, behold nature is on his\\nside, he shall yet work and prosper\\nwith noble rewards. He that will not\\nlearn them, Nature is against him; he", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nshall not be able to work in Nature s\\nempire, not in hers. Perpetual mu-\\ntiny, contention, hatred, isolation, exe-\\ncration shall wait on his footsteps, till\\nall men discern that the thing which\\nhe attains, however golden it look or\\nbe, is not success, but the want of suc-\\ncess.\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly 4th.\\nBorne over the Atlantic, to the clos-\\ning ear of Louis, King by the Grace of\\nGod, what sounds are these: muffled,\\nominous new in our centuries Bos-\\nton Harbour is black with unexpected\\nTea: behold a Pennsylvania Congress\\ngather, and ere long, on Bunker Hill.\\nDemocracy announcing, in rifle-volleys", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL VLB 149\\ndeath winged, under her Star Banner,\\nto the tune of Yankee-doodle-doo, that\\nshe is born, and whirlwind like, will\\nenvelope the whole earth\\nFrench devolution.\\nJuly 5th.\\nOne monster there is in the world:\\nthe idle man. What is his Religion?\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly 6th.\\nNo nobler feeling than this of admir-\\nation for one higher than himself dwells\\nin the breast of man. It is to this\\nhour, and at all hours, the vivifying\\ninfluence in man s life. Religion I\\nfind stand upon it; not Paganism only,\\nbut far higher and truer religions, all\\nreligion hitherto known. Hero-wor-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "I50 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nship, heartfelt prostrate admiration,\\nsubmission, burning, boundless, for a\\nnoblest godlike Form of Man, is not\\nthat the germ of Christianity itself\\nThe greatest of all heroes is One\\nwhom we do not name here. Let\\nsacred silence meditate that sacred\\nmatter; you will find it the ultimate\\nperfection of a principle extant through-\\nout man s whole history on earth.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJuly yth.\\nThus, in spite of all Motive-grinders,\\nand Mechanical Profit-and-Loss Philos-\\nophies, with the sick ophthalmia and\\nhallucination they had brought on, was\\nthe Infinite nature of Duty still dimly\\npresent to me; living without God in", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL ^LE 1 5 1\\nthe world, of God s light I was not\\nutterly bereft if my as yet sealed eyes,\\nwith their unspeakable longing, could\\nnowhere see him, nevertheless in my\\nheart He was present, and His heaven^\\nwritten Law still stood legible and\\nsacred there.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJuly 8th.\\nWe have sumptuous garnitures for\\nour Life, but have forgotten to live in\\nthe middle of them.\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly pfh.\\nFeudal Fleur-de-lys had become an\\ninsupportably bad marching banner,\\nand needed to be torn and trampled:\\nbut Moneybag of Mammon (for that.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nIn these times, is what the lespectable\\nRepubHc for the Middle Classes will\\nsignify) is a still worse, while it lasts\\nProperly, indeed, it is the worst and\\nbasest of all banners, and symbols of\\ndominion among- men; and indeed is\\npossible only in a time of general Athe-\\nism, and Unbelief in any thing save in\\nbrute Force and Sensualism; pride of\\nbirth, pride of office, any known kind\\nof pride being a degree better than\\npurse-pride.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJuly loth.\\nBribery; have we reflected what\\nbribery is Bribery means not only\\nlength of purse, which is neither qual-\\nification nor the contrary for legislating\\nwell but it means dishonesty, and even", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 1 53\\nimpudent dishonesty; brazen insensi-\\nbility to lying and to making others\\nlie; total oblivion, and flinging over-\\nboard, for the nonce, of any real thing\\nyou can call veracity, morality; with\\ndexterous putting on the cast-clothes\\nof that real thing, and strutting about\\nin them!\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly nth.\\nThe colours and forms of your light\\nwill be those of the cut-glass it has to\\nshine through. Curious to think how,\\nfor every man, any the truest fact is\\nmodelled by the nature of the man\\nI said. The earnest man, speaking to\\nhis brother men, must always have\\nstated what seemed to him a fact, a\\nreal Appearance of Nature. But the", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nway in which such Appearance or fact\\nshaped itself, what sort of fact it be-\\ncame for him, was and is modified\\nby his own laws of thinking; deep,\\nsubtle, but universal, ever-operating\\nlaws. The world of nature, for every\\nman, is the Fantasy of Himself; this\\nworld is the multiplex Image of his\\nown Dream.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJuly I2th.\\nIt is written, Many shall run to\\nand fro, and knowledge shall be in-\\ncreased. Surely the plain rule is. Let\\neach considerate person have his way,\\nand see what it will lead to. For not\\nthis man and that man, but all men\\nmake up mankind, and their united\\ntasks the tasks of mankind. How", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARLYLE 155\\noften have we seen sonue such adven-\\nturous, and perhaps much-censured\\nwanderer h ght on some outlying, neg-\\nlected, yet vitally momentous province;\\nthe hidden treasures of which he first\\ndiscovered, and kept proclaiming till\\nthe general eye and effort were directed\\nthither, and the conquest was com-\\npleted; thereby, in these his seem-\\ningly so aimless rambles, planting new\\nstandards, founding new habitable col-\\nonies, in the immeasurable circumam-\\nbient realm of Nothingness and Night?\\nWise man was he v/ho counselled that\\nSpeculation should have free course,\\nand look fearlessly towards all the\\nthirty-two points of the compass,\\nwhithersoever and howsoever it listed.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJuly isth.\\nAnd so our meetings and our part-\\nings do now end The sorrows we\\ngave each other; the poor joys we\\nfaithfully shared, and all our lovings\\nand our sufferings, and confused toil-\\nings under the earthly Sun, are over.\\nThou good soul, I shall ne\\\\ er, never\\nthrough all ages of Time, see thee any\\nmore Never O, Reader, knowest\\nthou that hard word\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJuly 14th.\\nTo each is given a certain inward\\nTalent, a certain outward Environment\\nof Fortune; to each, by wisest combi-\\nnation of these two, a certain maximum\\nof Capability. But the hardest prob-\\nlem were ever this first: To find by", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 157\\nstudy of yourself, and of the ground\\nyou stand on, what your combined in-\\nward and outward Capability specially\\nis. For, alas, our young soul is all\\nbudding with Capabilities, and we see\\nnot yet which is the main and true one.\\nAlways too the new man is in a new\\ntime, under new conditions; his course\\ncan be the facsimile of no prior one,\\nbut is by its nature original.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJuly i^th.\\nAll human interests, combmed human\\nendeavours, and social growths in this\\nworld, have, at a certain stage of their\\ndevelopment, required organising: and\\nWork, the grandest of human interests,\\ndoes now require it.\\nJ^ast and Present.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJuly i6fh.\\nFind a man whose words paint you a\\nlikeness, you have found a man worth\\nsomething; mark his manner of doing\\nit, as very characteristic of him. In the\\nfirst place, he could not have discerned\\nthe object at all, or seen the vital type\\nof it, unless he had, what we may call,\\nsympathised with it, had sympathy in\\nhim to bestow on objects. He must have\\nbeen sincere about it too; sincere and\\nsympathetic a man without worth can-\\nnot give you the likeness of any object;\\nhe dwells in vague outwardness, fallacy\\nand trivial hearsay, about all objects.\\nAnd indeed may we not say that intellect\\naltogether expresses itself in this power\\nof discerning what an object is? What-\\nsoever of faculty a man s mind may have", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 1 59\\nwill come out here. Is it even of busi-\\nness, a matter to be done? The gifted\\nman is he who sees the essential point,\\nand leaves all the rest aside as surplus-\\nage it is his faculty too, the man of\\nbusiness s faculty, that he can discern\\nthe true likeness, not the false superficial\\none, of the thing he has got to work in.\\nAnd how much of morality is in the kind\\nof insight we get of anything; the eye\\nseeing in all things what it brought with\\nit the faculty of seeing! To the mean\\neye all things are trivial, as certainly as\\nto the jaundiced they are yellow.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJuly lyth.\\nHow dare any man, especially a man\\ncalling himself minister of God, stand", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "i6o BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nup in any Parliament or place, under any\\npretext or delusion, and for a day or an\\nhour forbid God s Light to come into the\\nworld, and bid the Devil s Darkness con-\\ntinue in it one hour more For all light\\nand science, under all shapes, in all de-\\ngrees of perfection, is of God; all dark-\\nness, nescience, is of the Enemy of God.\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly i8th.\\nO ye Hypocrisies and Speciosities,\\nRoyal mantles, Cardinal plushcloaks, ye\\nCredos, Formulas, Respectabilities, fair-\\npainted Sepulchres full of dead men s\\nbones, behold, ye appear to us to be\\naltogether a Lie. Yet our Life is not a\\nLie; yet our Hunger and Misery is not\\na Lie! Behold we lift up, one and all,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE i6i\\nour Twenty-five million right-hands and\\ntake the Heavens, and the Earth and also\\nthe Pit of Tophet to witness, that either\\nye shall be abolished, or else we shall be\\nabolished\\nFrench Revolution,\\nJuly ipth.\\nI confess I have no notion of a truly\\ngreat man that could not be all sorts of\\nmen. The Poet who could merely sit\\non a chair, and compose stanzas, would\\nnever make a stanza worth much. He\\ncould not sing the Heroic warrior, unless\\nhe himself were at least a Heroic warrior\\ntoo. I fancy there is in him the Poli-\\ntician, the Thinker, Legislator, Philoso-\\npher: in one or the other degree, he\\ncould have been, he is all these.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "i62 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJuly 20th.\\nWhat is Justice? ask many, to whom\\ncruel Fate alone will be able to prove\\nresponsive. It is like jesting Pilate ask-\\ning, What is Truth Jesting Pilate had\\nnot the smallest chance to ascertain what\\nwas Truth. He could not have known\\nit, had a god shown it to him. Thick\\nserene opacity, thicker than amaurosis,\\nveiled those smiling eyes of his to Truth\\nthe inner retina of them was gone para-\\nlytic, dead. He looked at Truth and\\ndiscerned her not, there where she stood.\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly 2lSt.\\nSo true it is, what I then said, that\\nthe Fraction of Life can he increased in\\nvalue not so much by increasing your", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 163\\nNumerator as by lessening your Denomi-\\nnator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive\\nme, Unity itself divided by Zero will\\ngive Infinity. Make thy claim of wages\\na zero, then thou hast the world under\\nthy feet. Well did the Wisest of our\\ntime write It is only with Renunciation\\n(Entsagen) that Life, properly speak-\\ning, can be said to begin.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJuly 2 2d.\\nAnd yet, again, when a man s Formu-\\nlas become dead; as all Formulas, in the\\nprogress of living growth, are very sure\\nto do! When the poor man s integu-\\nments, no longer nourished from within,\\nbecome dead skin, mere adscititious\\nleather and callosity, wearing thicker", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "1 64 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nand thicker, uglier and uglier, till no\\nheart any longer can be felt beating\\nthrough them, so thick, callous, calcified\\nare they; and all over it has now\\ngrown mere calcified oyster-shell, or\\nwere it polished mother-of-pearl, in-\\nwards almost to the very heart of the\\npoor man yes then, you may say,\\nhis usefulness once more is quite ob-\\nstructed once more, he cannot go abroad\\nand do business in the world it is time\\nthat he take to bed and prepare for de-\\nparture which cannot now be distant\\nIJhl homines sunt modi sunt.\\nPast and Present.\\nJuly 2^d.\\nMen s w^ords are a poor exponent of\\ntheir thought nay their thought itself is", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 165\\na poor exponent of the inward unnamed\\nMystery, wherefrom both thought and\\naction have their birth. No man can\\nexplain himself, can get himself ex-\\nplained; men see not one another but\\ndistorted phantasms which they call one\\nanother which they hate and go to battle\\nwith for all battle is well said to be mis-\\nunderstanding.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nJuly 24th.\\nSuch I hold to be the genuine use of\\nGunpowder: that it makes all men alike\\ntall. Nay, if thou be cooler, cleverer\\nthan I, if thou have more Mind, though\\nall but no Body whatever, then canst\\nthou kill me first, and art the taller.\\nHereby, at last, is the Goliath powerless,", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nand the David resistless savage Animal-\\nism is nothing, inventive Spiritualism is\\nall.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJuly 25th.\\nLife is figured by them as a Tree.\\nIgdrasil, the Ash-Tree of Existence,\\nhas its roots deep down in the kingdoms\\nof Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up\\nheaven-high, spreads its boughs over the\\nwhole Universe it is the Tree of Exist-\\nence. At the foot of it, in the Death-\\nkingdom, sit Three Nomas, Fates,\\nthe Past, Present, Future watering its\\nroots from the Sacred Well. Its\\nboughs, with their buddings and dis-\\nleafings, events, things suffered, things\\ndone, catastrophes, stretch through all", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 167\\nlands and times. Is not every leai of it\\na biography, every fibre there an act or\\nword? Its boughs are Histories of\\nNations. The rustle of it is the noise of\\nHuman Existence onwards from of old.\\nIt grows there, the breath of Human\\nPassion rustling through it; or storm-\\ntost, the stormwind howling through it\\nlike the voice of all the gods. It is Ig-\\ndrasil, the Tree of Existence. It is the\\npast, the present, and the future; what\\nwas done, what is doing, what wnll be\\ndone; the infinite conjugation of the\\nverb To do. Considering how human\\nthings circulate, each inextricably in\\ncommunion with all, how the word I\\nspeak to you to-day is borrowed, not\\nfrom Ulfila the Moesogoth only, but from\\nail men since the first man began to", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "i6S BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nspeak, I find no similitude so true as\\nthis of a Tree. Beautiful altogether\\nbeautiful and great. The Machine of\\nthe Universe, alas, do but think of\\nthat in contrast!\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJuly 26th.\\nAll visible things are Emblems what\\nthou seest is not there on its own ac-\\ncount strictly taken, is not there at all\\nMatter exists only spiritually, and to\\nrepresent some Idea, and body it forth.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nJuly 2/th.\\nEnjoying things that are pleasant\\nthat is not the evil it is the reducing\\nof our moral self to slavery by them that\\nis. Let a man assert wilhal that he is", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL VLB 1 69\\nking over his habitudes that he could\\nand would shake them off, on cause\\nshown this is an excellent law.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nJuly 28th.\\nNot in having no business with men,\\nbut in having no unjust busfness with\\nthem, and in haz ing all manner of true\\nand just business, can either his or their\\nblessedness be found possible, and this\\nwaste world become, for both parties, a\\nhome and peopled garden.\\nPas^ and Present.\\nJuly 2Qth.\\nThe first spiritual want of a barbarous\\nman is Decoration.\\nSartor Res art us.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "I70 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nJuly jotli.\\nLabour must become a seeing rational\\ngiant, with a soul in the body of him,\\nand take his place on the throne of things,\\nleaving his Mammonism, and several\\nother adjuncts, on the lower steps of\\nsaid throne.\\nFast atid Present\\nJuly ^ISt.\\nMystical, more than magical, is that\\nCommunion of Soul with Soul, both\\nlooking heavenward here properly Soul\\nfirst speaks with Soul for only in look-\\ning heavenward, take it in what sense\\nyou may, not in looking earthward, does\\nwhat we can call Union, mutual Love,\\nSociety, begin to be possible.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "AUGUST", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "August 1st.\\nWhat a man kens he cans. But the\\nbeginning of a man s doom is that vision\\nbe withdrawn from him; that he sees\\nnot the reahty, but a false spectrum of\\nthe reahty; and, following that, step\\ndarkly, with more or less velocity, down-\\nwards to the utter Dark to Ruin, which\\nis the great Sea of Darkness, whither all\\nfalsehoods, winding or direct, continu-\\nally flow.\\nFrench Revolution,\\nAugust 2d.\\nO Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful\\nto consider that we not only carry each a\\nfuture Ghost within him but are, in very\\ndeed. Ghosts! These Limbs, whence", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nhad we them this stormy Force this\\nhfe-blood with its burning Passion?\\nThey are dust and shadow; a shadow-\\nsystem gathered round our Me wherein,\\nthrough some moments or years the\\nDivine Essence is to be revealed in the\\nFlesh. That warrior on his strong war-\\nhorse, fire flashes through his eyes force\\ndwells in his arm and heart but warrior\\nand war-horse are a vision a revealed\\nForce, nothing more.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nAugust ^d.\\nThis Universe, ah me what could the\\nwild man know of it what can we yet\\nknow? That it is a Force and Thous-\\nandfold Complexity of Forces a Force\\nwhich is not we. That is all; it is not", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 175\\nwe, it is altogether different from us.\\nForce, Force, everywhere Force we our-\\nselves a mysterious Force in the centre\\nof that. There is not a leaf rotting on\\nthe highway but has Force in it how else\\ncould it rot Nay surely, to the Atheis-\\ntic Thinker, if such a one were possible,\\nit must be a miracle too, this huge illimit-\\nable whirlwind of Force, which envelops\\nus here; never-resting whirlwind, high\\nas Immensity, old as Eternity. What is\\nit? God s creation, the religious people\\nanswer it is the Almighty God s Athe-\\nistic science babbles poorly of it, with\\nscientific nomenclatures, experiments and\\nwhat-not, as if it were a poor dead thing,\\nto be bottled-up in Leyden jars and sold\\nover counters: but the natural sense of\\nman, in ?.ll times, if he will earnestly", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\napply his sense, proclaims it to be a liv-\\ning thing, ah, an unspeakable, god-like\\nthing; towards which the best attitude\\nfor us, after never so much science, is\\nawe, devout prostration and humility of\\nsoul; worship if not in words, then in\\nsilence.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nAugust 4th.\\nYour cotton-spinning and thrice-\\nmiraculous mechanism, what is this too,\\nby itself, but a larger kind of Animalism\\nSpiders can spin, Beavers can build, and\\nshow contrivance the Ant lays up accu-\\nmulation of capital, and has, for aught\\nI know, a Bank of Antland. If there\\nis no soul in man higher than all that,\\ndid it reach to sailmg on the cloud-rack", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "FROJVr THOMAS CARLYLE 177\\nand spinning sea-sand then I say, man\\nis but an animal, a more cunning kind of\\nbrute he has no soul.\\nPast and Present.\\nAugust ^th.\\nWithout hands a man might have feet,\\nand could still walk; but, consider it,\\nwithout morality, intellect were impossi-\\nble for him he could not know anything\\nat all To know a thing, what we can\\ncall knowing, a man must hrst love the\\nIthing, sympathise with it: that is, be\\nvirtuously related to it. If he have not\\nthe justice to put down his own selfish-\\nness at every turn, the courage to stand\\nby the dangerous-true at every turn how\\nshall he know? His virtues, all of them,\\nwill lie recorded in his knowledge. Na-", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1 73 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nture, with her truth, remains to the bad,\\nto the selfish and pusillanimous forever\\na sealed book what such can know of\\nNature is mean, superficial small for the\\nuses of the day merely. But does not\\nthe very Fox know somethingof Nature?\\nExactly so: it knows where the geese\\nlodge\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nAugust 6th.\\nBut on the whole does not TntE en-\\nvelop this present National Convention\\nas it did those Brennuses, and ancient\\nAugust Senates in felt breeches? Time\\nsurely; and also Eternity. Dim dusk\\nof Time, or noon which will be dusk\\nand then there is night, and silence and\\nTime with all its sick noises is swallowed", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 179\\nin the still sea. Pity thy brother, O Son\\nof Adam The angriest frothy jargon\\nthat he utters, is it not properly the\\nwhimpering of an infant which cannot\\nspeak what ails it, but is in distress\\nclearly, in the inwards of it and so must\\nsquall and whimper continually, till its\\nMother take, and it get to sleep\\nFrench devolution.\\nAugust yth.\\nAmong the rainbow colours that\\nglowed on my horizon, lay even in child-\\nhood a dark ring of Care, as yet no\\nthicker than a thread, and often quite\\novershone yet always it reappeared, nay\\never waxing broader and broader; till\\nin after-years it almost overshadowed my\\nwhole canopy, and threatened to engulf", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "i8o BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nme in final night. It was the ring of\\nNecessity, whereby we all are begirt;\\nhappy he for whom a kind heavenly Sun\\nbrightens it into a ring of Duty, and\\nplays round it with beautiful prismatic\\ndiffractions yet ever, as basis and as\\nbourne for our whole being, it is there.\\nSarlor Resartus.\\nAugust StJl.\\nThe Bucanier strikes down a man,\\na hundred or a million men but what\\nprofits it? He has one enemy never to\\nbe struck down nay two enemies Man-\\nkind and the Maker of Men. On the\\ngreat scale or on the small, in fighting\\nof men or fighting of difficulties, I will\\nnot embark my venture with How^el\\nDavies It is not the Bucanier, it is the", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE i8i\\nHero only that can gain victory, that can\\ndo more than seem to succeed. These\\nthings will deserve meditating; for they\\napply to all battle and soldiership, all\\nstruggle and effort whatsoever in this\\nFight of Life.\\nPast and Present.\\nAugust pth.\\nThat stifled hum of Midnight, when\\nTraffic has lain down to rest; and the\\nchariot-wheels of Vanity, still rolling\\nhere and there through distant streets,\\nare bearing her to Halls roofed in, and\\nlighted to the due pitch for her and only\\nVice and Misery, to prowl or to moan\\nlike nightbirds, are abroad: that hum, I\\nsay, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber\\nof sick Life, is heard in Heaven\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "1 82 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nAugust lOth.\\nTo shriek, we say, when certain things\\nare acted, is proper and unavoidable.\\nNevertheless, articulate speech, not\\nshrieking, is the faculty of man when\\nspeech is not yet possible, let there be,\\nwith the shortest delay, at least silence.\\nFrtncli Revolution.\\nAugust nth.\\nFor the gowns of learned-sergeants\\nare good parchment records, fixed\\nforms, and poor terrestrial Justice, with\\nor without horse-hair, what sane man\\nwill not reverence these? And yet, be-\\nhold, the man is not sane but insane,\\nwho considers these alone as venerable.\\nOceans of horse-hair, continents of\\nparchment, and learned-sergeant elo-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 183\\nquence, were it continued till the learned\\ntongue wore itself small in the indefati-\\ngable learned mouth, cannot make unjust\\njust. The grand question still remains,\\nWas the judgment just? If unjust, it\\nwill not and cannot get harbour for\\nitself, or continue to have footing in this\\nUniverse, which was made by other than\\nOne Unjust.\\nPast and Present.\\nAugust I2th.\\nIn Death too, in the Death of the Just,\\nas the last perfection of a Work of Art,\\nmay we not discern symbolic meaning?\\nIn that divinely transfigured Sleep, as of\\nVictory, resting over the beloved face\\nwhich now knows thee no more, read\\n(if thou canst for tears) the confluence", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "1 84 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nof Time with Eternity, and some t(leam\\nof the latter peering through.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nAugust ijth.\\nWhat indeed are faculties? We talk\\nof faculties as if they were distinct,\\nthings separable; as if a man had intel-\\nlect, Imagination, fancy, c., as he has\\nhands, feet and arms. That is a capital\\nerror. Then again, we hear of a man s\\nintellectual nature. and of his moral\\nnature, as these again were divisible,\\nand existed apart. Necessities of lan-\\nguage do indeed require us so to speak\\nwe must speak. I am aware, in this way,\\nif we are to speak at all. But words\\nought not to harden into things for us.\\nIt seems to me, our apprehension of this", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 185\\nmatter is, for most part, radically falsi-\\nfied thereby. We ought to know withal,\\nand to keep forever in mind, that these\\ndivisions are at bottom but names; that\\nman s spiritual nature, the vital Force\\nwhich dwells in him, is essentially one\\nand indivisible that what we call imagi-\\nnation, fancy, understanding, and so\\nforth, are but different figures of the\\nsame Power of Insight, all indissolubly\\nconnected with each other, physiognomi-\\ncally related; that if we knew one of\\nthem we might know all of them. Moral-\\nity itself, what we call the moral quality\\nof a man, what is this but another side\\nof the one Vital Force whereby he is and\\nworks All that a man does is physiog-\\nnomical of him. You may see hozv a\\nman would fight, by the way in which he", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "i86 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nsings; Jus courage, or zcaiit of courage,\\nis visible in the word lie utters, in the\\nopinion he has formed, no less than in\\nthe stroke he strikes. He is one; aiid\\npreaches the same Self abroad in all\\nthese Zi ays.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nAugust 14th.\\nWell, also, says he elsewhere, was\\nit written by Theologians a King rules\\nby divine right. He carries in him an\\nauthority from God, or man will never\\ngive it him. Can I choose my own King\\nI can choose my own King Popinjay,\\nand play what farce or tragedy I may\\nwith him but he who is to be my Ruler,\\nwhose will is to be higher than my will,\\nwas chosen for me in Heaven. Neither", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 187\\nexcept in such Obedience to the Heaven-\\nchosen is Freedom so much as conceiv-\\nable.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nAugust 15th.\\nThis business of Louis looks altogether\\ndifferent now, as seen over Seas and at\\nthe distance of forty-four years, than it\\nlooked then, in France, and struggling,\\nconfused all round one For indeed it\\nis a most lying thing that same Past\\nTense always so beautiful, sad, almost\\nElysian-sacred, in the moonlight of\\nMemory, it seems and seems only. For\\nobserve always, one most important\\nelement is surreptitiously (we not notic-\\nmg it) withdrawn from the Past Time:\\nthe haggard element of Fear Not there", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 88 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ndoes Fear dwell, nor Uncertainty, nor\\nAnxiety; but it dwells here; haunting\\nus, tracking us running like an accursed\\nground-discord through all the music-\\ntones of our Existence making the\\nTense a more Present one Just so is it\\nwith this of Louis. Why smite the\\nfallen? asks Magnanimity, out of danger\\nnow.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nAugust 1 6th.\\nThus does the Conscience of man pro-\\nject itself athwart whatsoever of knowl-\\nedge or surmise, of imagination, under-\\nstanding, faculty, acquirement, or natural\\ndisposition he has in him and, hke light\\nthrough coloured glass, paint strange\\npictures on the rim of the horizon", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 189\\nand elsewhere Truly this same sense\\nof the Infinite nature of Duty is the\\ncentral part of all with us a ray as of\\nEternity and Immortality, immured in\\ndusky many-coloured Time, and its\\ndeaths and births. Your coloured glass\\nvaries so much from century to century\\nand, in certain money-making, game-\\npreserving centuries, it gets so terribly\\nopaque Not a Heaven with cherubim\\nsurrounds you then, but a kind of vacant\\nleaden-coloured Hell. One day it will\\nagain cease to be opaque, this coloured\\nglass. Nay, may it not become at once\\ntranslucent and w/icoloured? Painting\\nno Pictures more for us, but only the\\neverlasting Azure itself? That will be\\na right glorious consummation!\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "190 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nAugust i/th.\\nTruth, I cried, though the Heavens\\ncrush nie for following her: no False-\\nhood though a whole celestial Lubber-\\nland were the price of Apostacy.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nAugust i8th.\\nIt is a calumny on men to say that they\\nare aroused to heroic action by ease, hope\\nof pleasure, recompense sugar-plums\\nof any kind, in this world or the next\\nIn the meanest mortal there lies some-\\nthing nobler. The poor swearing sol-\\ndier, hired to be shot, has his honour\\nof a soldier, different from drill-regu-\\nlations and the shilling a day. It is not\\nto taste sweet things, but to do noble and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 191\\ntrue things, and vindicate himself under\\nGod s Heaven as a god-made Man, that\\nthe poorest Son of Adam dimly longs.\\nShow him the way of doing that, the\\ndullest daydrudge kindles into a hero.\\nThey wrong man greatly who say he is\\nto be seduced by ease. DifiBculty, abne-\\ngation, martyrdom, death are the allure-\\nments that act on the heart of man.\\nKindle the inner genial life of him, you\\nhave a flame that burns-up all lower con-\\nsiderations. Not happiness, but some-\\nthing higher: one sees this even in the\\nfrivolous classes, with their point of\\nhonour and the like. Not by flattering\\nour appetites no, by awakening the\\nHeroic that slumbers in every heart, can\\nany Religion gain followers.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship,", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "192 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nAugust igih.\\nCustom, continues the Professor,\\ndoth make dotards of us all. Consider\\nwell, thou wilt find that Custom is the\\ngreatest of Weavers and weaves air-\\nraiment for all the Spirits of the Uni-\\nverse whereby indeed these dwell with\\nus visibly, as ministering servants, in\\nour houses and workshops but their\\nspiritual nature becomes, to the most, for\\never hidden. Philosophy complains that\\nCustom has hoodwinked us, from the\\nfirst that we do every thing by Custom,\\neven Believe by it that our very Axioms,\\nlet us boast of Free-thinking as we may,\\nare oftenest simply such Beliefs as we\\nhave never heard questioned. Nay, what\\nis Philosophy throughout but a continual\\nbattle against Custom an ever-renewed", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 193\\neffort to transcend the sphere of blind\\nCustom, and so become Transcendental\\nSartor Resartus.\\nAugust 20th.\\nIt has been written, An endless sig-\\nnificance lies in Work; a man perfects\\nhimself by working. Foul jungles are\\ncleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead,\\nand stately cities; and withal the man\\nhimself first ceases to be a jungle and\\nfoul unwholesome desert thereby. Con-\\nsider how, even in the meanest sort of\\nLabour, the whole soul of a man is com-\\nposed into a kind of real harmony, the\\ninstant he sets himself to work!\\nPasi and Present.\\nAugust 2 1 St.\\nLiving! Little knowest thou what\\nalchemy is in an inventive Soul how, as", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "194 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nwith its little finger, it can create pro-\\nvision enough for the body (of a Phil-\\nosopher) and then, as with both hands,\\ncreate quite other than provision namely,\\nspectres to torment itself withal.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nAugust 2 2d.\\nAll substances clothe themselves in\\nforms but there are suitable true forms,\\nand then there are untrue unsuitable. As\\nthe briefest definition, one might say,\\nForms which groiv round a substance,\\nif we rightly understand that, will cor-\\nrespond to the real nature and purport\\nof it, will be true, good forms which are\\nconsciously put round a substance, bad.\\nI invite you to reflect on this It distin-\\nguishes true from false in Ceremonial", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 195\\nForm, earnest solemnity from empty\\npageant, in all human things.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nAugust 2^d.\\nLaw is our father and mother, whom\\nwe will not dishonour but Patriotism is\\nour own soul.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nAugust 24th.\\nDupes indeed are many: but, of all\\ndupes, there is none so fatally situated\\nas he who lives in an undue terror of\\nbeing duped. The world does exist the\\nworld has truth in it, or it would not\\nexist! First recognize what Is true, we\\nshall then discern what is false, and\\nproperly never till then.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "196 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nAugust 2jtll,\\nTo whom, then, is this wealth of\\nEngland wealth? Who is it that it\\nblesses; makes happier, wiser, beauti-\\nfuller, in any way better? Who has got\\nhold of it, to make it fetch and carry for\\nhim, like a true servant, not like a false\\nmock-servant to do him any real ser-\\nvice whatsoever? As yet no one.\\nPast and Present.\\nAugust 26th.\\nThere must be a veracity, a natural\\nspontaneity in forms. In the commonest\\nmeeting of men, a person making, what\\nwe call, set speeches, is not he an\\noffense? In the mere drawing-room,\\nwhatsoever courtesies you see to be grim-\\naces, prompted by no spontaneous reality", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 197\\nwithin, are a thing you wish to get away\\nfrom.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nAugust 2yth.\\nProduce Produce Were it but the\\npitifulest infinitesimal fraction of a Pro-\\nduct, produce it in God s name! Tis\\nthe utmost that thou hast in thee; out\\nwith it then. Up, up Whatsoever thy\\nhand findeth to do, do it with thy whole\\nmight. Work while it is called To-day,\\nfor the Night cometh wherein no man\\ncan work.\\nPasf and Present.\\nAugust 28th.\\nWhat then is this Thing, called La\\nRevolution, which, like an Angel of\\nDeath, hangs over France, noyading,", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "198 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nfusillating, fighting, gun-boring, tanning\\nhuman skins La Revolution is but so\\nmany Alphabetic Letters a thing no-\\nwhere to be laid hands on, to be clapt\\nunder lock and key where is it? what is\\nit? It is the Madness that dwells in the\\nhearts of men. In this man it is, and in\\nthat man as a rage or as a terror, it is in\\nall men. Invisible, impalpable and yet\\nno black Azrael, with wings spread over\\nhalf a continent, with sword sweeping\\nfrom sea to sea, could be a truer Reality.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nAugust 2Qth.\\nThe inventive genius of great England\\nwill not forever sit patient with mere\\nwheels and pinions, bobbins, straps and\\nbilly-rollers whirring in the head of it", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 199\\nThe inventive genius of England is not\\na Beaver s, or a Spinner s, or Spider s\\ngenius it is a Man s genius I hope, with\\na God over him!\\nPast and Present.\\nAugust ^oth.\\nAnd yet, I say, there is an irrepressi-\\nble tendency in every man to develop\\nhimself according to the magnitude\\nwhich Nature has made him of to speak\\nout, to act out, what Nature has laid in\\nhim. This is proper, fit, inevitable nay,\\nit is a duty, and even the summary of\\nduties for a man. The meaning of life\\nhere on earth might be defined as con-\\nsisting in this: To unfold your self, to\\nwork what thing you have the faculty\\nfor. It is a necessity for the human\\nbeing, the first law of our existence.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2772", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "20O BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nAugust ^ist.\\nWho can hinder it who is there that\\ncan clutch into the wheel-spokes of Des-\\ntiny, and say to the Spirit of Time Turn\\nback, I command thee? Wiser were it\\nthat we yielded to the Inevitable and\\nInexorable, and accounted even this the\\nbest.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "SEPTEMBER", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "September isf.\\nThat the French Nation has believed,\\nfor several years now, in the possibility,\\nnay certainty and near advent, of a uni-\\nversal Millenium, or reign of Freedom,\\nEquality, Fraternity, wherein man should\\nbe the brother of man, and sorrow and\\nsin flee away? Not bread to eat, nor\\nsoap to wash with and the reign of per-\\nfect Felicity ready to arrive, due always\\nsince the Bastile fell! How did our\\nhearts burn within us, at the Feast of\\nPikes, when brother flung himself on\\nbrother s bosom; and in sunny jubilee,\\nTwenty- five millions burst forth into\\nsound and cannon-smoke! Bright was\\nour Hope then, as sunlight; red-angry\\nis our Flope grown now, as consuming", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "204 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nfire. But, O Heavens, what enchant-\\nment is it, or devehsh legerdemain, of\\nsuch effect, that Perfect FeHcity, always\\nwithin arm s length could never be laid\\nhold of, but only in her stead Contro-\\nversy and Scarcity This set of traitors\\nafter that set I Tremble, ye traitors;\\ndread a People which calls itself patient,\\nlong-suffering; but which cannot always\\nsubmit to have its pocket picked, in this\\nway, of a Millenium\\nFrench Revolution.\\nSeptember 2d.\\nHow a man, of some wide thing that\\nhe has witnessed, will construct a narra-\\ntive, what kind of picture and delineation\\nhe will give of it, is the best measure\\nyou could get of what intellect is in the\\nman. Which circumstance is vital and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 205\\nshall stand prominent; which unessen-\\ntial, fit to be suppressed; where is the\\ntrue beginning, the true sequence and\\nending? To find out this you task the\\nwhole force of insight that is in the man.\\nHe must understand the thing; accord-\\ning to the depth of his understanding,\\nwill the fitness of his answer be. You\\nwill try him so. Does like join itself to\\nlike the spirit of method stir in that con-\\nfusion, so that its embroilment becomes\\norder? Can the man say, Fiat lux, Let\\nthere be light and out of chaos make a\\nworld? Precisely as there is light in\\nhimself, will he accomplish this.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nSeptember ^d.\\nOur Wilderness is the Wide World\\nin an Atheistic Century our Forty Days", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "2o6 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nare long years of suffering and fasting:\\nnevertheless, to these also comes an end.\\nYes, to me also was given, if not the Vic\\ntory, yet the consciousness of Battle, and\\nthe resolve to persevere therein while\\nlife or faculty is left. To me. also, en-\\ntangled in the enchanted forests, demon-\\npeopled, doleful of sight and of sound,\\nit was given, after weariest wanderings,\\nto work out my way into the higher sun-\\nlit slopes of that Mountain which has\\nno summit, or whose summit is in\\nHeaven only\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember 4th.\\nHast thou looked on the Potter s\\nwheel, one of the venerablest objects;", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 207\\nold as the Prophet Ezechiel and far older?\\nRude lumps of clay,how they spin them-\\nselves up, by mere quick whirling, into\\nbeautiful circular dishes. And fancy\\nthe most assiduous Potter, but without\\nhis wheel reduced to making dishes, or\\nrather amorphous botches, by mere\\nkneading and baking! Even such a\\nPotter were Destiny, with a human soul\\nthat would rest and lie at ease, that would\\nnot work and spin! Of an idle unre-\\nvolving man the kindest Destiny, like the\\nmost assiduous Potter without wheel,\\ncan bake and knead nothing other than\\na botch; let her spend on him what ex-\\npensive colouring, what gilding and\\nenamelling she will, he is but a botch.\\nNot a dish; not a bulging, kneaded,\\ncrooked, shambling, squint-cornered,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "2o8 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\namorphous botch, a mere enamelled\\nvessel of dishonour Let the idle think\\nof this.\\nPast and Present.\\nSeptember ^th.\\nAlas then, is man s civilization only a\\nwrappage, through which the savage\\nnature of him can still burst, infernal as\\never Nature still makes him and has\\nan Infernal in her as well as a Celestial.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nSeptember 6th.\\nBut that an Infinite of Practical Im-\\nportance, speaking with strict arithmeti-\\ncal exactness, an Infinite, has vanished\\nor can vanish from the Life of any Man:\\nthis thou shalt not believe! O brother,\\nthe Infinite of Terror, of Hope, of Pity,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 209\\ndid it not at any moment disclose itself\\nto thee, indubitable, unnameable Came\\nit never, like the gleam of pretermitural\\neternal Oceans, like the voice of old\\nEternities, farsounding through thy heart\\nof hearts? Never? Alas, it was not\\nthy Liberalism then it was thy Animal-\\nism The Infinite is most sure than any\\nother fact.\\nPasf and Present.\\nSeptember yth.\\nIt is not because of his toils that I\\nlament for the poor: we must all toil,\\nor steal (howsoever we name our steal-\\ning), which is worse; no faithful work-\\nman finds his task a pastime. The poor\\nis hungry and athirst; but for him also\\nthere is food and drink he is heavy-laden\\nand weary but for him also the Heavens", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "2IO BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nsend Sleep, and of the deepest in his\\nsmoky cribs, a clear dewy heaven of Rest\\nenvelops him. and fitful glitterings of\\ncloud-skirted Dreams. But what I do\\nmourn over is, that the lamp of his soul\\nshould go out that no ray of heavenly,\\nor even of earthly knowledge, should\\nvisit him but, only in the haggard dark-\\nness, like two spectres, Fear and Indig-\\nnation.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember 8th.\\nThese old St. Edmundsbury walls, I\\nsay, were not peopled with fantasms but\\nwith men of flesh and blood, made alto-\\ngether as we are. Had thou and I then\\nbeen, who knows but we ourselves had\\ntaken refuge from an evil Time, and fled\\nto dwell here, and meditate on an Eter-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 211\\nnity, in such fashion as we could Alas,\\nhow like an old osseous fragment, a\\nbroken blackened shin-bone of the old\\ndead Ages, this black ruin looks out, not\\nyet covered by the soil still indicating\\nwhat a once gigantic Life lies buried\\nthere It is dead now, and dumb but\\nwas alive once, and spake. For twenty\\ngenerations, here was the earthly arena\\nwhere painful living men worked out\\ntheir life-wrestle, looked at by Earth,\\nby Heaven and Hell. Bells tolled to\\nprayers; and men, of many humours,\\nvarious thoughts, chanted vespers, ma-\\ntins and round the little islet of their\\nlife rolled forever (as round ours still\\nrolls, though we are blind and deaf) the\\nillimitable Ocean, tinting all things with\\nits eternal hues and reflexes; making", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "212 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nstrange prophetic music! How silent\\nnow all departed, clean gone. The\\nWorld-Dramaturgist has written: Ex-\\neunt.\\nPast and Present.\\nSeptember gtJi.\\nSo many centuries, say only from\\nHugh Capet downwards, had been add-\\ning together, century transmitting it with\\nincrease to century, the sum of Wicked-\\nness, of Falsehood, Oppression of man\\nby man. Kings were sinners, and Priests\\nwere, and People. Open-Scoundrels\\nrode triumphant, bediademed, becoro-\\nnetted, bemitred or the still fataller\\nspecies of Secret-Scoundrels, in their\\nfair-sounding formulas, speciosities, re-\\nspectabilities, hollow within the race of\\nQuacks was grown many as the sands of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 213\\nthe sea. Till at length such a sum of\\nQuackery had accumulated itself as, in\\nbrief, the Earth and the Heavens were\\nweary of Slow seemed the Day of\\nSettlement coming on, all imperceptible,\\nacross the bluster and fanfaronade of\\nCourtierisms, Conquering Heroisms,\\nMost-Christian Grand Monarque-isms,\\nWell-beloved Pompadourisms yet be-\\nhold it was always coming; behold it\\nhas come, suddenly, unlooked for by any\\nman The harvest of long centuries was\\nripening and whitening so rapidly of\\nlate; and now it is grown white, and is\\nreaped rapidly, as it were, in one day.\\nReaped in this Reign of Terror; and\\ncarried home, to Hades and the Pit!\\nUnhappy Sons of Adam it is ever so\\nand never do they know it, nor will they", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "214 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nknow it. With clieerfully smoothed\\ncountenances, day after day, and genera-\\ntion after generation, they, calHng cheer-\\nfully to one another, Well-speed-ye,\\nare at work, soianng the wind. And yet,\\nas God Hves, they shall reap the zvhirl-\\nwind: no other thing, we say, is possible,\\nsince God is Truth and His World is\\na Truth.\\nFrench devolution.\\nSeptember loth.\\nHappily no bygone German, or man,\\nrises again thus the Present is not need-\\nlessly trammelled with the Past and only\\ngrows out of it, like a Tree, whose roots\\nare not intertangled with its branches,\\nbut lie peaceably under ground. Nay,\\nit is very mournful, yet not useless, to\\nsee and know, how the Greatest and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 215\\nDearest, in a short while, would find his\\nplace quite filled up here, and no room\\nfor him: the very Napoleon, the very\\nByron, in some seven years, has become\\nobsolete, and were now a foreigner to\\nhis Europe. Thus is the Law of Prog-\\nress secured; and in Clothes, as in all\\nother external things whatsoever, no\\nfashion will continue.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember nth.\\nThe craftsman there, the smith with\\nthat metal of his, with these tools, with\\nthese cunning methods, how little of\\nall he does is properly his work! All\\npast inventive men work with him: as\\nindeed with all of us, in all things.\\nDante is the spokesman of the Middle\\nAges the Thought they lived by stands", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "2i6 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nhere, in everlasting music. These sub-\\nlime ideas of his, terrible and beautiful,\\nare the fruit of the Christian Meditation\\nof all the good men who had gone\\nbefore him.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nSeptember 12th.\\nSublimer in this world know I nothing\\nthan a Peasant Saint, could such now\\nany where be met with. Such a one will\\ntake thee back to Nazareth itself; thou\\nwilt see the splendour of Heaven spring\\nforth from the humblest depths of Earth,\\nlike a light shining in great darkness.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember i^th.\\nA man m no case has liberty to tell lies\\nIt had been, in the long run, better for", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 217\\nNapoleon too if he had not told any. In\\nfact, if a man have any purpose reaching\\nbeyond the hour and day, meant to be\\nfound extant next day, what good can it\\never be to promulgate lies The lies are\\nfound out ruinous penalty is exacted for\\nthem. No man will believe the liar next\\ntime even when he speaks truth, when\\nit is of the last importance that he be\\nbelieved. The old cry of wolf!\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A lie\\nis wo-thing you cannot of nothing make\\nsomething; you make nothing at last\\nand lose your labour into the bargain.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nSeptember 14th.\\nBut how is it then with that Vengeur\\nShip, she neither strikes nor makes off?", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "218 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nShe is lamed, she cannot make off strike\\nshe will not. Fire rakes her fore and\\naft, from victorious enemies the Ven-\\ngeur is sinking. Strong are ye, Tyrants\\nof the Sea yet we also, are we weak\\nLo all flags, steamers, jacks, every rag\\nof tricolor that will yet run on rope, fly\\nrustling aloft the whole crew crowds to\\nthe upper deck and, with universal soul-\\nmaddening yell, shouts Vive la R^pub-\\nlique, sinking, sinking. She staggers,\\nshe lurches, her last drunk whirl Ocean\\nyawms abysmal down rushes the Veii-\\nguer, carrying Vive la Rcpiiblique along\\nwith her, unconquerable into Eternity!\\nLet foreign Despots think of that. There\\nis an Unconquerable in man, when he\\nstands on his Rights of Man let Despots\\nand Slaves and all people know this,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 219\\nand only them that stand on the Wrongs\\nof Man tremble to know it.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nSeptember 15th\\nTo shape the whole future is not our\\nproblem but only to shape faithfully a\\nsmall part of it, according to rules al-\\nready known. It is perhaps possible for\\neach of us, who will with due earnestness\\ninquire, to ascertain clearly what he, for\\nhis own part, ought to do: this let him,\\nwith true heart, do, and continue doing.\\nThe general issue will, as it has always\\ndone, rest well with a Higher Intelli-\\ngence than ours.\\nPasi and Present.\\nSeptember 16th.\\nHast thou ever meditated on that word\\nTradition how we inherit not Life only.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "220 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbut all the garniture and form of Life;\\nand work, and speak, and even think and\\nfeel, as our Fathers, and primeval grand-\\nfathers, from the beginning have given\\nit us?\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember lyth.\\nThey were Poets too, that devised all\\nthose graceful courtesies which make\\nlife noble! Courtesy is not a falsehood\\nor grimace it need not be such. And\\nLoyalty, religious Worship itself, are\\nstill possible; nay still inevitable.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nSeptember i8th.\\nHast thou not Greek enough to imder-\\nstand thus much The end of Man is in", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 221\\nAction, and not a Thought, though it\\nwere the noblest?\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember i^th.\\nBut our work, behold that is not\\nabolished, that has not vanished: our\\nwork, behold, it remains, or the want of\\nit remains for endless Times and Eter-\\nnities, remains and that is now the sole\\nquestion with us forevermore Brief\\nbrawling Day, with its noisy phantasms,\\nits poor paper-crowns tinsel-gilt, is gone\\nand divine everlasting Night, with her\\nstar-diadems, with her silences and her\\nveracities, is come! What hast thou\\ndone, and how? Happiness, Unhappi-\\nness: all that was but the wages thou\\nhadst thou hast spent all that, in sustain-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "222 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ning thyself hitherward not a coin of it\\nremains with thee, it is all spent, eaten\\nand now thy work, where is thy work?\\nSwift, out with it, let us see thy work!\\nPast and Present.\\nSeptember 20th.\\nFor a man, once committed headlong\\nto republican or any other Transcenden-\\ntalism, and fighting and fanaticising\\namid a Nation of his like, becomes as it\\nwere enveloped in an ambient atmosphere\\nof Transcendentalism and Delirium: his\\nindividual self is lost in something that\\nis not himself, but foreign though in-\\nseparable from him. Strange to think\\nof, the man s cloak still seems to hold the\\nsame man and yet the man is not there.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 223\\nhis volition is not there nor the source\\nof what he will do and devise instead of\\nthe man and his volition there is a piece\\nof Fanaticism and Fatalism incarnated\\nin the shape of him. He, the hapless\\nincarnated Fanaticism, goes his road no\\nman can help him, he himself least of all.\\nIt is a wonderful tragical predicament;\\nsuch as human language, unused to\\ndeal with these things, being contrived\\nfor the uses of common life, struggles\\nto shadow out in figures. The ambient\\nelement of material fire is not wilder\\nthan this of Fanaticism nor, though\\nvisible to the eye, is it more real. Voli-\\ntion bursts forth involuntarily volun-\\ntary; rapt along; the movement of free\\nhuman minds becomes a raging tornado\\nof fatalism, blind as the winds; and", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "224 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nMountain and Gironde, when they re-\\ncover themselves, are ahke astounded to\\nsee where it has flung and dropped them.\\nTo such height of miracle can men work\\non men the Conscious and the Uncon-\\nscious blended inscrutably in this our\\ninscrutable Life endless Necessity en-\\nvironing Freewill\\nFrench Revolution.\\nSeptember 21st.\\nWheresoever Disorder may stand or\\nlie, let It have a care here is the man\\nthat has declared war with it, that never\\nwill make peace with it. Man is the\\nMissionary of Order; he is the servant\\nnot of the Devil and Chaos, but of God\\nand the Universe! Let all sluggards\\nand cowards, remiss, false-spoken, un-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 225\\njust, and otherwise diabolic persons have\\na care this is a dangerous man for them.\\nPast and Present.\\nSeptember 22d.\\nBeautiful it is to understand and know\\nthat a Thought did never yet die that as\\nthou, the originator thereof, has gathered\\nit and created it from the whole Past,\\nso thou wilt transmit it to the whole\\nFuture. It is thus that the heroic Heart,\\nthe seeing Eye of the first times, still\\nfeels and sees in us of the latest; that\\nthe Wise Man stands ever encompassed,\\nand spiritually embraced, by a cloud of\\nwitnesses and brothers and there is a\\nliving, literal Coinmunion of Saints, wide\\nas the World itself, and as the History\\nof the World.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "226 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nSeptember 2jd.\\nThe Reformation might bring what\\nresults it liked when it came, but the\\nReformation simply could not help com-\\ning. To all Popes and Popes advocates,\\nexpostulating, lamenting and accusing,\\nthe answer of the world is Once for all,\\nyour Popehood has become untrue. No\\nmatter how good it was, how good you\\nsay it is, we cannot believe it the light\\nof our whole mind, given us to walk by\\nfrom Heaven above, finds it henceforth\\na thing unbelievable. We will not be-\\nlieve it, we will not try to believe it, we\\ndare not The thing is untrue; we were\\ntraitors against the Giver of all Truth,\\nif we durst pretend to think it true.\\nAway with it; let whatsoever likes come", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 227\\nin the place of it with it we can have no\\nfarther trade\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nSeptember 24th.\\nMan is a Tool-using Animal (Han-\\nthierendes Thier). Weak in himself, and\\nof small stature, he stands on a basis, at\\nmost for the flattest-soled, of some half-\\nsquare foot, insecurely enough; has to\\nstraddle out his legs, lest the very wind\\nsupplant him. Feeblest of bipeds Three\\nquintals are a crushing load for him;\\nthe Steer of the meadows tosses him\\naloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he\\ncan use Tools, can devise Tools: with\\nthese the granite mountain melts into\\nlight dust before him he kneads glowing\\niron, as if it were soft paste seas are his\\nsmooth highway, winds and fire his un-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "22S BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find\\nhim without Tools without Tools he is\\nnothing, with Tools he is all.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember 2^th.\\nYes, Reader, here is the miracle. Out\\nof that putrescent rubbish of Scepticism,\\nSensualism, Sentimentalism, hollow\\nMachiavelism, such a Faith has verily\\nrisen flaming in the heart of a People.\\nA whole People, awakening as it were\\nto consciousness in deep misery, believes\\nthat it is within reach of a Fraternal\\nHeaven-on-Earth. With longing arms,\\nit struggles to embrace the Unspeakable\\ncannot embrace it, owing to certain\\ncauses. Seldom do we find that a whole\\nPeople can be said to have any Faith at", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 229\\nall; except in things which it can eat\\nand handle. Whensoever it gets any\\nFaith, its history becomes spirit-stirring,\\nnote-worthy. But since the time when\\nsteel Europe shook itself simultaneously,\\nat the word of Hermit Peter, and rushed\\ntoward the Sepulchre where God had\\nlain, there was no universal impulse of\\nFaith that one could note. Since Protest-\\nantism went silent, no Luther s voice,\\nno Zisca s drum any longer proclaiming\\nthat God s Truth was not the Devil s\\nLie; and the last of the Cameronians\\n(Renwick was the name of him; honour\\nto the name of the brave!) sank, shot,\\non the Castle Hill of Edinburgh, there\\nwas no partial impulse of Faith among\\nNations.\\nFrench Revolution,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "230 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nSeptember 26th.\\nGreat men are the inspired (speaking\\nand acting) Texts of that divine Book\\nOF Revelations, whereof a Chapter is\\ncompleted from epoch to epoch, and by\\nsome named History to which inspired\\nTexts your numerous talented men, and\\nyour innumerable untalented men, are\\nthe better or worse exegetic Comment-\\naries, and wagon-load of too-stupid,\\nheretical or orthodox, weekly Sermons.\\nFor my study, the inspired Texts them-\\nselves\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember 2/th.\\nOn the whole, who knows how to\\nreverence the Body of a Man? It is the\\nmost reverend phenomenon under this\\nSun. For the Highest God dwells visible", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARL YLE 231\\nin that mystic unfathomable Visibility,\\nwhich calls itself I on the Earth.\\nPast and Present.\\nSeptember 28th.\\nPaganism we recognized as a veracious\\nexpression of the earnest awe-struck\\nfeeling of man towards the Universe;\\nveracious, true once, and still not with-\\nout worth for us. But mark here the\\ndifference of Paganism and Christian-\\nism; one great difference. Paganism\\nemblemed chiefly the Operations of\\nNature; the destinies, efforts, combina-\\ntions, vicissitudes of things and men in\\nthis world; Christianism emblemed the\\nLaw of Human Duty, the Moral Law of\\nMan. One was for the sensuous nature\\na rude helpless utterance of the first\\nThought of men, the chief recognised", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "232 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nvirtue, Courage, Superiority to Fear.\\nThe other was not for the sensuous\\nnature, but for the moral.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nSeptember 2pth.\\nAlas! the fearful Unbelief is unbelief\\nin yourself.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nSeptember joth.\\nOf hearts made by the Almighty God\\nI will not believe such a thing. Deep-\\nhidden under wretchedest god-forget-\\nting Cants, Epicurisms, Dead-Sea Ap-\\nisms forgotten as under foulest fat\\nLethe mud and weeds, there is yet, in\\nall hearts born into this God s-World,\\na spark of the Godlike slumbering.\\nAwake, O nightmare sleepers; awake,\\narise, or be forever fallen\\nJ ast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "OCTOBER", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "October isf.\\nAll that is without us will change\\nwhile we think not of it much even that\\nis within us. The truth that was yester-\\nday a restless Problem, has to-day grown\\na Belief burning to be uttered: on the\\nmorrow, contradiction has exasperated\\nit into mad Fanaticism; obstruction has\\ndulled it into sick Inertness it is sinking\\ntowards silence, of satisfaction or of\\nresignation. To-day is not Yesterday,\\nfor man or for thing. Yesterday there\\nwas the oath of Love to-day has come\\nthe curse of Hate. Not willingly: ah,\\nno; but it could not help coming. The\\ngolden radiance of youth, would it will-\\ningly have tarnished itself into the dim-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "236 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nness of old age? Fearful how we stand\\nenveloped, deep-sunk, in that Mystery of\\nTime; and are Sons of Time; fashioned\\nand woven out of Time and on us, and\\non all that we have, or see, or do, is\\nwritten Rest not, Continue not, For-\\nward to thy doom\\nFrench Revolution.\\nOctober 2d.\\nThere must be something wrong. A\\nfull formed Horse will, in any market,\\nbring from twenty to as high as two\\nhundred Friederichs d or such is his\\nworth to the world. A full formed Man\\nis not only worth nothing to the world,\\nbut the world could afford him a round\\nsum would he simply engage to go and\\nhang himself. Nevertheless, which of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 237\\nthe two was the more cunningly-devised\\narticle, even as an Engine?\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober ^d.\\nYou have heard of St. Chrysostom s\\ncelebrated saying in reference to the\\nShekinah, or Ark of Testimony, visible\\nRevelation of God, among the Hebrews\\nThe true Shekinah is Man! Yes, it\\nis even so: this is no vain phrase; it is\\nveritably so. The essence of our being,\\nthe mystery in us that calls itself I,\\nah, what words have we for such things\\nis a breath of Heaven; the Highest\\nBeing reveals himself in man. This\\nbody, these faculties, this life of ours, is\\nit not all as a vesture for that Unnamed\\nThere is but one temple in the Uni-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "238 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nverse, says the devout Novalis, and\\nthat is the Body of Man. Nothing is\\nhoHer than that high form. Bending\\nbefore men is a reverence done to this\\nRevelation in the Flesh. We touch\\nHeaven when we lay our hand on a hu-\\nman body This sounds much like a\\nmere flourish of rhetoric but it is not so.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nOctober 4th.\\nBrother, this Planet, I find, is but an\\ninconsiderable sandgrain in the conti-\\nnents of Being: this Planet s poor tem-\\nporary interests, thy interests and my m-\\nterests there, when I look fixedly into\\nthat eternal Light-Sea and Flame-Sea\\nwith its eternal interests, dwindle literally\\ninto nothing; my speech of it is silence", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 239\\nfor the while. I will as soon think of\\nmaking Galaxies and Star-Systems to\\nguide little herring-vessels by, as of\\npreaching Religion that the Constable\\nmay continue possible.\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober ^th.\\nAch Gott, when I gazed into these\\nStars, have they not looked down on me\\nas if with pity, from their serene spaces\\nlike Eyes glistening with heavenly tears\\nover the little lot of man! Thousands\\nof human generations, all as noisy as our\\nown, have been swallowed up of Time,\\nand there remains no wreck of them any\\nmore; and Arcturus and Orion and\\nSirius and the Pleiades are still shining", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "240 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nin their courses, clear and young, as\\nwhen the Shepherd first noted them in\\nthe plain of Shinar.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober 6th.\\nWhat an umpire Nature is; what a\\ngreatness, composure of depth and\\ntolerance there is in her. You take\\nwheat to cast into the Earth s bosom\\nyour wheat may be mixed with chafif,\\nchopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and\\nall imaginable rubbish no matter you\\ncast it into the kind just Earth; she\\ngrows the wheat, the whole rubbish she\\nsilently absorbs, shrouds it in, says\\nnothing of the rubbish. The yellow\\nwheat is growing there the good Earth\\nis silent about all the rest, has silently\\nturned all the rest to some benefit too,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 241\\nand makes no complaint about it! So\\neverywhere in Nature She is true and\\nnot a He; and yet so great, and just, and\\nmotherly in her truth. She requires of\\na thing only that it he genuine of heart\\nshe will protect it if so; will not, if not\\nso. There is a soul of truth in all the\\nthings she ever gave harbour to. Alas,\\nis not this the history of all highest\\nTruth that comes or ever came into the\\nworld? The hody of them all is im-\\nperfection, an element of light in dark-\\nness to us they have to come embodied\\nin mere Logic, in some merely scientific\\nTheorem of the Universe; which cannot\\nbe complete; which cannot but be found\\none day incomplete, erroneous^ and so\\ndie and disappear. The body of all\\nTruth dies and yet in all, I say, there is", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "242 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\na soul which never dies which in new\\nand ever-nobler embodiment lives im-\\nmortal as man himself! It is the way\\nwith Nature. The genuine essence of\\nTruth never dies. That it be genuine, a\\nvoice from the great Deep of Nature,\\nthere is the point at Nature s judgment-\\nseat. What zve call pure or impure, is\\nnot with her the final question. Not\\nhow much chaff is in you but whether\\nyou have any wheat. Pure I might say\\nto many a man Yes, you arc pure pure\\nenough; but you are chaff, insincere\\nhypothesis, hearsay, formality you never\\nwere in contact with the great heart of\\nthe Universe at all you are properly\\nneither pure or impure; you are\\nnothing. Nature has no business with\\nyou.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 243\\nOctober yth.\\nVery frightful it is when a Nation,\\nrendering asunder its Constitutions and\\nRegulations which were grown dead\\ncerements for it, becomes fmw^cendental\\nand must now seek its wild way through\\nthe New, Chaotic, where Force is not\\nyet distinguished into Bidden and For-\\nbidden, but Crime and Virtue welter un-\\nseparated, in that domain of what is\\ncalled the Passions of v/hat we call the\\nMiracles and the Portents It is thus\\nthat, for some three years to come, we\\nare to contemplate France, in this final\\nThird Volume of our History. Sans-\\ncullotism reigning in all its grandeur\\nand in all its hideousness: the Gospel\\n(God s -Message) of Man s Rights,\\nMan s mights or strengths, once more", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "244 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\npreached irrefragably abroad along with\\nthis, and still louder for the time, the\\nfearfullest Devil s-Message of Man s\\nweaknesses and sins and all on such a\\nscale and under such aspect cloudy\\ndeath-birth of a world huge smoke-\\ncloud, streaked with rays as of heaven\\non one side; girt on the other as with\\nhell-fire History tells us many things\\nbut for the last thousand years and more,\\nwhat thing has she told us of a sort like\\nthis?\\nFrench Revolution.\\nOctober 8th.\\nFor there is a perennial nobleness,\\nand even sacredness, in Work. Were\\nhe never so benighted, forgetful of his\\nhigh calling, there is always hope in a\\nman that actually and earnestly works:", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 245\\nin Idleness alone is there perpetual des-\\npair. Work, never so Mammonish,\\nmean, is in communication with Nature\\nthe real desire to get Work done will\\nitself lead one more and more to truth,\\nto Nature s appointments and regula-\\ntions, which are truth.\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober pth.\\nHow beautiful to die of broken- heart,\\non Paper Quite another thing in Prac-\\ntice every window of your Feelmg, even\\nof your Intellect, as it were, begrimed\\nand mud-bespattered, so that no pure ray\\ncan enter a whole Drug-shop in your\\ninwards the foredone soul drowning\\nslowly in quagmires of Disgust\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "246 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nOctober loth.\\nHow true, for example, is that other\\nold Fable of the Sphinx, who sat by the\\nwayside, propounding her riddle to the\\npassengers, which if they could not\\nanswer she destroyed them Such a\\nSphinx is this Life of ours, to all men\\nand societies of men.\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober nth.\\nTo me nothing seems more natural\\nthan that the Son of Man, when such\\nGod-given mandate first prophetically\\nstirs within him, and the Clay must now\\nbe vanquished or vanquish, should be\\ncarried of the spirit into grim Solitudes,\\nand there fronting the Tempter do\\ngrimmest battle with him defiantly", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 247\\nsettting him at nought, till he yield and\\nfly. Name it as we choose with or with-\\nout visible Devil, whether in the natural\\nDesert of rocks and sands, or in the\\npopulous moral Desert of selfishness and\\nbaseness,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to such Temptation are we\\nall called. Unhappy if we are not\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober 12th.\\nI admire a Nation which fancies it\\nwill die if it do not undersell all other\\nNations, to the end of the world.\\nBrothers, we will cease to unders W\\nthem; we will be content to equal-s^W\\nthem to be happy selling equally with\\nthem! I do not see the use of under-\\nselling them. Cotton-cloth is already\\ntwo-pence a yard or lower and yet bare", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "248 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbacks were nevermore numerous among\\nus. Let inventive men cease to spend\\ntheir existence incessantly contriving\\nhow cotton can be made cheaper and try\\nto invent, a little, how cotton at its\\npresent cheapness could be somewhat\\njustlier divided among us\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober 13th.\\nFor it is false altogether what the last\\nSceptical Century taught us, that this\\nworld is a steam-engine. There is a^\\nGod in this world and a God-sanction,\\nor else the violation of such, does look\\nout from all ruling and obedience, from\\nall moral acts of men. There is no act\\nmore moral between men than that of\\nrule and obedience. Woe to him that\\nclaims obedience when it is not due woe", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL VLB i a 9\\nto him that refuses it when it is God s\\nlaws is in that, I say, however the Parch-\\nment-laws may run: there is a Divine\\nRight or else a Diabolic Wrong at the\\nheart of every claim that one man makes\\nupon another.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship\\nOctober 14th.\\nVain truly is the hope of your swiftest\\nRunner to escape from his own\\nShadow.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober 15th.\\nLet inventive men consider, Whether\\nthe Secret of this Universe, and of Man s\\nLife there, does, after all, as we rashly\\nfancy it, consist in making money?\\nThere is one God, just, supreme, al-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "250 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nmighty but is Mammon the name of\\nhim? With a Hell which means Fail-\\ning to make money, I do not think there\\nis any Heaven possible that would suit\\none well nor so much as an Earth that\\ncan be habitable long\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober i6th.\\nSo has it been from the beginning, so\\nwill it be to the end. Generation after\\ngeneration takes to itself the Form of a\\nBody and forth-issuing from Cimmerian\\nNight, on Heaven s mission appears.\\nWhat Force and Fire is in each he ex-\\npends one grinding in the mill of Indus-\\ntry one hunter-like climbing the giddy\\nAlpine heights of Science; one madly\\ndashed in pieces on the rocks of Strife,\\nin war with his fellow: and then the", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CARLYLE 251\\nHeaven-sent is recalled his earthly Ves-\\nture falls away, and vSoon even to Sense\\nbecomes a vanished Shadow. Thus, like\\nsome wild-flaming, wild-thundering* train\\nof Heaven s Artillery, does this mys-\\nterious Mankind thunder and flame, in\\nlong-drawn, quick-succeeding grandeur,\\nthrough the unknown Deep. Thus, like\\na God-created, fire-breathing Spirit-host,\\nwe emerge from the Inane haste storm-\\nfully across the astonished Earth; then\\nplunge again into the Inane. Earth s\\nmountains are levelled, and her seas filled\\nup, in our passage can the Earth, which\\nis but dead and a vision, resist Spirits\\nwhich have reality and are alive? On\\nthe hardest adamant some foot-print of\\nus is stamped in the last Rear of the host\\nwill read traces of the earliest Van. But", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "252 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nwhence? O Heaven, whither? Sense\\nknows not Faith knows not only that it\\nis through Mystery to Mystery, from\\nGod and to God.\\nSartor Resartus\\nOctober lyth.\\nFor example, you Bobus Higgins,\\nSausage-maker on the great scale, who\\nare raising such a clamour for this Aris-\\ntocracy of Talent, what is it that you do,\\nin that big heart of yours, chiefly in very\\nfact pay reverence to? Is it to talent,\\nintrinsic manly worth of any kind you\\nunfortunate Bobus? The manliest man\\nthat you saw going in a ragged coat, did\\nyou ever reverence him did you so much\\nas know that he was a manly man at all,\\ntill his coat grew better? Talent! 1\\nunderstand you to be able to worship the", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 253\\nfame of talent, the power, cash, celebrity\\nor other success of talent but the talent\\nitself is a thing you never saw with eyes.\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober i8th.\\nGreat men are not ambitious in that\\nsense he is a small poor man that is\\nambitious so. Examine the man who lives\\nin misery because he does not shine above\\nother men who goes about producing\\nhimself, pruriently anxious about his\\ngifts and claims struggling to force\\neverybody, as it were begging everybody\\nfor God s sake, to acknowledge him a\\ngreat man, and set him over the heads of\\nmen! Such a creature is among the\\nwretchedest sights seen under this sun.\\nA great man A poor morbid prurient", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "254 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nempty man fitter for the ward of a hos-\\npital, than for a throne among men. I\\nadvise you to keep-out of his way. He\\ncannot walk on quiet paths unless you\\nwill look at him, wonder at him, write\\nparagraphs about him, he cannot live.\\nIt is the emptiness of the man, not his\\ngreatness. Because there is a nothing\\nin himself, he hungers and thirsts that\\nyou would find something m him. In\\ngood truth, I believe no great man, not\\nso much as a genuine man who had\\nhealth and real substance in him of what-\\never magnitude, who was ever much tor-\\nmented in this way.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nOctober igth.\\nThe wages of every noble Work do\\nyet lie in Heaven or else Nowhere. Not", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 255\\nin Bank-of-England bills, in Owen s\\nLabour-Bank, or any the most improved\\nestablishment of banking and money-\\nchanging, needest thou, heroic soul, pre-\\nsent thy account of earnings.\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober 20th.\\nMost true is it, as a wise man teaches\\nus, that Doubt of any sort cannot be re-\\nmoved except by Action. On which\\nground too let him who gropes painfully\\nin darkness or uncertain light, and prays\\nvehemently that the dawn may ripen into\\nday, lay this other precept well to heart,\\nwhich to me was of invaluable service:\\nDo the Duty which lies nearest thee,\\nwhich thou knowest to be a Duty.\\nSartor Resartus,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "256 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nOctober 21st.\\nVenerable Justice herself began by\\nWild-Justice; all Law is as a tamed\\nfurrow-field, slowly worked out. and\\nrendered arable, from the waste jungle\\nof Club-Law.\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober 22d.\\nHow was it, then, that here, when\\ntrembling to the core of his heart, he did\\nnot sink into swoons, but rose into\\nstrength, into fearlessness and clearness?\\nIt was his guiding Genius {Damon) that\\ninspired him he must go forth and meet\\nhis Destiny. Shew thyself now, whis-\\npered it, or be for ever hid. Thus some-\\ntimes it is even when your anxiety be-\\ncomes transcendental, that the soul first", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 257\\nfeels herself able to transcend it that she\\nrises above it, in fiery victory and, borne\\non new-found wings of victory, moves\\nso calmly, even because so rapidly, so\\nirresistibly.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober 2^d.\\nVery singular to look into it: how a\\nkind of order rises up in all conditions\\nof human existence; and wherever two\\nor three are gathered together, there are\\nfound modes of existing together, habi-\\ntudes, observances, nay gracefulnesses,\\njoys\\nFrench Revolution.\\nOctober 24th.\\nIt Is the Night of the World, and still\\nlong till it be Day we wander amid the", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "258 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nglimmer of smoking ruins, and the Sun\\nand the Stars of Heaven are as blotted\\nout for a season and two immeasurable\\nFantoms, Hypocrisy and Atheism, with\\nthe Gowle, Sensuality, stalk abroad\\nover the Earth, and call it theirs well at\\nease are the Sleepers for whom Existence\\nis a shallow Dream.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober z^th.\\nHow have we to regret not only that\\nmen have no religion/ but that they\\nhave next to no reflection and go about\\nwith heads full of mere extraneous\\nnoises, with eyes wide-open but vision-\\nless, for most part, in the somnambulist\\nstate\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 2 59\\nOctober 26th.\\nSuch transitions are ever full of pain\\nthus the Eagle when he moults is sickly\\nand, to attain his new beak, must harshly\\ndash off the old one upon rocks.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nOctober 2yth.\\nOr apart from all Transcendentalism,\\nis not a plain truth of sense, which the\\nduller mind can even consider as a\\ntruism, that human things wholly are in\\ncontinual movement, and action and re-\\naction; working continually forward,\\nphasis after phasis, by unalterable laws,\\ntoward prescribed issues? How often\\nmust we say, and yet not rightly lay to\\nheart: The seed that is sown^, it will\\nspring! Given the summer s blossom-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "26o BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ning, then there is also given the autumnal\\nwithering so is it ordered not with seed-\\nfields only, but with transactions,\\narrangements, philosophies, societies,\\nFrench Revolutions, whatsoever man\\nworks with in this lower world. The\\nBeginning holds in it the End, and all\\nthat leads thereto as the acorn does the\\noak and its fortunes. Solemn enough,\\ndid we think of it, which unhappily and\\nalso happily we do not very much Thou\\nthere canst begin the Beginning is for\\nthee, and there but where, and of what\\nsort, and for whom will the end be? All\\ngrows, and seeks and endures its des-\\ntinies consider likewise how much\\ngrows, as the trees do, whether we think\\nof it or not.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE i6i\\nOctober 28th.\\nDoubt, Desire, Sorrow, Remorse, In-\\ndignation, Despair itself, all these like\\nhelldogs lie beleaguering the soul of the\\npoor dayworker, as of every man but he\\nbends himself with free valour against\\nhis task, and all these are stilled, all these\\nshrink murmuring far off into their\\ncaves. The man is now a man. The\\nblessed glow of Labour in him, is it not\\nas purifying fire, wherein all poison is\\nburnt up, and of sour smoke itself there\\nis made bright blessed flame?\\nPast and Present.\\nOctober 2pth.\\nSmall men, most active, useful, are to\\nbe seen everywhere, whose whole activity\\ndepends on some conviction which to you\\nis palpably a limited one, imperfect, what", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "262 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nwe call an error. But would it be a\\nkindness always, is it a duty always or\\noften, to disturb them in that? Many a\\nman, doing loud work in the world,\\nstands only on some thin traditionality,\\nconventionality to him indubitable, to\\nyou incredible break that beneath him,\\nhe sinks to endless depths! I might\\nhav^e my hand full of truth, said Fon-\\ntenelle, and yet open only my little\\nfinger.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nOctober joth.\\nHow true that there is nothing dead\\nin this Universe that what we call dead\\nis only changed, its forces working in\\ninverse order The leaf that lies\\nrotting in moist winds, says one, has\\nstill force; else how could it rotf Our", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 263\\nwhole Universe is but an infinite Com-\\nplex of Forces thousandfold, from\\nGravitation up to Thought and Will;\\nman s Freedom environed with Necessity\\nof Nature: in all which nothing at any\\nmoment slumbers, but all is for ever\\nawake and busy. The thing that lies\\nisolated, inactive thou shalt nowhere\\ndiscover; seek every where from the\\ngranite mountain, slow-mouldering since\\nCreation, to the passing cloud-vapour,\\nto the living man; to the action, to\\nthe spoken word of man. The word\\nthat is spoken, as we know, flies-irrevo-\\ncable not less, but more, the action that\\nis done. The gods themselves, sings\\nPindar, cannot annihilate the action that\\nis done. No: this once done, is done\\nalways; cast forth into endless Time;", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "264 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nand, long conspicuous, or soon hidden,\\nmust verily work and grow for ever\\nthere, an indestructible new element in\\nthe Infinite of Things.\\nFrench Revolution.\\nOctober ^ist.\\nCreation, says one, lies before us, like\\na glorious Rainbow but the Sun that\\nmade it lies behind us, hidden from us.\\nThen, in that strange Dream, how we\\nclutch at shadows as if they were sub-\\nstances and sleep deepest while fancy-\\ning ourselves most awake Which of\\nyour Philosophical Systems is other than\\na dream-theorem a net quotient, confi-\\ndently given out, where divisor and divi-\\ndend are both unknown?\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "NOVEMBER", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "November ist.\\nSansculottism verily was alive, a New-\\nBirth of Time; nay it still lives, and is\\nnot dead, but changed. The soul of it\\nstill lives; still works far and wide,\\nthrough one bodily shape into another\\nless amorphous, as is the way of cunning\\nTime with his New-Births till, in some\\nperfected shape, it embrace the whole\\ncircuit of the world For the wise man\\nmay now everywhere discern that he\\nmust found on his manhood, not on the\\ngarnitures of his manhood. He who,\\nin these Epochs of our Europe, founds\\non garnitures, formulas, culottisms of\\nwhat sort soever, is founding on an old\\ncloth and sheep-skin, and cannot endure.\\nBut as for the body of Sansculottism,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "268 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthat is dead and buried, and, one hopes,\\nneed not reappear, in primary amorphous\\nshape, for another thousand years\\nFrench Revolution.\\nNovetnher 2d.\\nThe manner of men s Hero-worship,\\nverily it is the innermost fact of their\\nexistence, and determines all the rest,\\nat public hustings, in private drawing-\\nrooms, in church, in market, and wher-\\never else. Have true reverence, and\\nwhat indeed is inseparable therefrom,\\nleverence the right man, all is well have\\nsham-reverence, and what also follows,\\ngreet with it the wrong man, then all\\nis ill, and there is nothing well. Alas,\\nif Hero-worship become Dilettantism,\\nand all except !Mammonism be a vain", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 269\\ngrimace, how much, in this most earnest\\nEarth, has ever and is evermore going\\nto fatal destruction, and lies wasting in\\nquiet lazy ruin, no man regarding it\\nPast and Present.\\nNovember jd.\\nThe man who cannot wonder, who\\ndoes not habitually wonder (and wor-\\nship), were he President of innumerable\\nRoyal Societies, and carried the whole\\nM^canique Gleste and Hegeles Philos-\\nophy, and the epitome of all Laboratories\\nand Observatories with their results, in\\nhis single head,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is but a Pair of Spec-\\ntacles behind which there is no Eye. Let\\nthose who have Eyes look through him,\\nthen he may be useful.\\nSartor Resartus.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "2 70 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nNovember 4th.\\nLooking round on the noisy inanity\\nof the world, words with Httle meaning,\\nactions with Httle worth, one loves to\\nreflect on the great Empire of Silence.\\nThe noble silent men, scattered here and\\nthere, each in his department silently\\nthinking, silently working whom no\\nMorning Newspaper makes mention of!\\nThey are the salt of the Earth. A\\ncountry that has none or few of these is\\nin a bad way. Like a forest which has\\nno roots; which had all turned into leaves\\nand boughs which must soon wither\\nand be no forest. Woe for us if we had\\nnothing but what we can shoiv, or speak.\\nSilence, the great Empire of Silence:\\nhigher than the stars deeper than the\\nKingdoms of Death! It alone is great;", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 271\\nall else is small.- I hope we English will\\nlong maintain our grand talent pour le\\nsilence. Let others that cannot do with-\\nout standing on barrel-heads, to spout,\\nand be seen of all the market-place, culti-\\nvate speech exclusively, become a most\\ngreen forest without roots?\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nNovember ^th.\\nGaze thou in the face of thy Brother,\\nin those eyes where plays the lambent\\nfire of Kindness, or in those where rages\\nthe lurid conflagration of Anger; feel\\nhow thy own so quiet Soul is straight-\\nway involuntarily kindled with the like,\\nand ye blaze and reverberate on each\\nother, till it is all one limitless confluent", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "272 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nflame (of embracing Love, or of deadly-\\ngrappling Hate) and then say what\\nmiraculous virtue goes out of man into\\nman.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nNovember 6th.\\nOr, indeed, what is this Infinite of\\nThings itself, which men name Universe,\\nbut an action, a sum-total of Actions and\\nActivities The living ready-made sum-\\ntotal of these three, which Calculation\\ncannot add, cannot bring on its tablets\\nyet the sum, we say, is written visible:\\nAll that has been done, All that is doing,\\nAll that will be done! Understand it\\nwell, the Thing thou beholdest, that\\nThing is an Action, the product and ex-\\npression of exerted Force: the All of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 273\\nThings is an infinite conjugation of the\\nverb To do. Shoreless Fountain-Ocean\\nof Force, of power to do; wherein Force\\nrolls and circles, billowing, many-\\nstreamed, harmonious; wide as Immen-\\nsity, deep as Eternity; beautiful and\\nterrible, not to be comprehended this is\\nwhat man names Existence and Uni-\\nverse this thousand-tinted Flame-image,\\nat once veil and revelation, reflex such as\\nhe, in his poor brain and heart, can paint,\\nof One Unnameable dwelling in inaccess-\\nible light! From beyond the Star-gal-\\naxies, from before the Beginning of\\nDays, it billows and rolls, round thee,\\nnay thyself art of it, in this point of\\nSpace where thou now standest, in this\\nmoment which thy clock measures.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "274 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nNovember yth.\\nSubdue mutiny, discord, widespread\\ndespair, by manfulness, justice, mercy\\nand wisdom. Chaos is dark, deep as\\nHell let light be, and there is instead a\\ngreen flowery World. O, it is great, and\\nthere is no other greatness. To make\\nsome nook of God s Creation a little\\nfruitfuller, better, more worthy of God\\nto make some human hearts a little\\nwiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed,\\nless accursed It is work fo^ a God.\\nPast and Present.\\nNovember 8th.\\nA just man will generally have better\\ncause than money in what shape soever,\\nbefore deciding to revolt against his\\nGovernment. He will say Take my", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 275\\nmoney, since you can, and it is so desir-\\nable to you take it and take yourself\\naway with it and leave me alone to my\\nwork here. am still here; can still\\nwork, after all the money you have\\ntaken from me But if they come to\\nhim and say, Acknovv^ledge a Lie pre-\\ntend to say you are worshipping God,\\nwhen you are not doing it: believe not\\nthe thing that you find true, but the thing\\nthat I find, or pretend to find true He\\nwill answer: No; by God s help, no!\\nYou may take my purse; but I cannot\\nhave my moral self annihilated. The\\npurse is any Highwayman s who might\\nmeet me with a loaded pistol: but the\\nSelf is mine and God my Maker s it is\\nnot yours and I will resist you to the\\ndeath, and revolt against you, and, on the", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "276 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nwhole, front all manner of extremities,\\naccusations and confusions, in defense\\nof that\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nNovember ptJi.\\nNeither say that thou hast now no\\nSymbol of the Godlike. Is not God s\\nUniverse a Symbol of the Godlike; is\\nnot Immensity a Temple, is not Man s\\nHistory, and Men s History, a perpetual\\nEvangel? Listen, and for organ-music\\nthou wilt ever, as of old, hear the Morn-\\ning Stars sing together.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nNovember loth.\\nWherefore let all men know what of\\ndepth and of height is still revealed in\\nman; and, with fear and wonder, with", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 277\\njust sympathy and just antipathy, with\\nclear eye and open heart, contemplate\\nit and appropriate it and draw innumer-\\nable inferences from it. This inference\\nfor example, among the first: That if\\nthe gods of this lower world will sit on\\ntheir glittering thrones, indolent as Epi-\\ncurus gods, with the living Chaos of\\nIgnorance and Hunger weltering uncared\\nfor at their feet, and smooth Parasites\\npreaching, Peace, peace, when there is\\nno peace, then the dark Chaos, it would\\nseem, will rise has risen, and O Heavens\\nhas it not tanned their skins into breeches\\nfor itself? That there be no second\\nSansculottism in our Earth for a thous-\\nand years, let us understand well what\\nthe first was and let Rich and Poor of\\nus go and do otherwise.\\nFrench Revolution,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "278 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nNovember iiih.\\nHow can there be any remedy in\\ninsurrection? It is a mere announce-\\nment of the disease, visible now even to\\nSons of Night. Insurrection usually\\ngains little usually wastes how much\\nOne of its worst kinds of waste, to say\\nnothing of the rest, is that of irritating\\nand exasperating men against each other,\\nby violence done which is always sure\\nto be injustice done, for violence does\\neven justice unjustly.\\nPast and Present.\\nNovember 12th.\\nWith respect to Duels, indeed I have\\nmy own ideas. Few things, in this so\\nsurprising world, strike me with more\\nsurprise. Two little visual Spectra of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 279\\nmen, hovering with insecure enough co-\\nhesion in the midst of the Unfathom-\\nable^ and to dissolve therein, at any rate,\\nvery soon, make pause at the distance\\nof twelve paces asunder whirl round\\nand simultaneously by the cunningest\\nmechanism, explode one another into\\nDissolution and off-hand become Air,\\nand Non-extant Deuce on it {yer-\\ndammt), the little spitfires! Nay, I\\nthink with old Hugo von Trimberg:\\nGod must needs laugh outright, could\\nsuch a thing be, to see his wondrous\\nManikins here below.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nNovember i^th.\\nFor the faith in an Invisible, Unname-\\nable, Godlike, present everywhere in all", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "28o BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthat we see and work and suffer, is the\\nessence of all faith whatsoever and that\\nonce denied, or still worse, asserted with\\nlips only, and out of bound prayerbooks\\nonly, what other things remain believ-\\nable?\\nPast aud Present.\\nNovember 14th.\\nFool! the Ideal is in thyself, the Im-\\npediment too is in thyself: thy Condition\\nis but the stuff thou art to shape that\\nsame Ideal out of what matters whether\\nsuch stuff be of this sort or that, so the\\nForm thou give it be heroic, be poetic?\\nO thou that pinest in the imprisonment\\nof the Actual, and criest bitterly to the\\ngods for a kingdom wherein to rule and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 281\\ncreate, know this of a truth: the thing\\nthou seekest is already with thee, here\\nor nowhere, couldst thou only see!\\nSartor Resartus\\nNovember 13th.\\nAll misery is faculty misdirected,\\nstrength that has not yet found its way.\\nThe black whirlwind is mother of the\\nlightning. No smoke, in any sense, but\\ncan become flame and radiance\\nPasi and Present.\\nNovember 16th.\\nA vein of Poetry exists in the hearts\\nof all men; no man is made altogether\\nof Poetry. We are all poets when we\\nread a poem well. The imagination that", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "282 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nshudders at the Hell of Dante, is not\\nthat the same faculty, weaker in degree,\\nas Dante s own?\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nNoz eniber i/th.\\nFight on, thou brave true heart, and\\nfalter not, through dark fortune and\\nthroligh bright. The cause thou lightest\\nfor, so far as it is true, no farther, yet\\nprecisely so far, is very sure of victory.\\nThe falsehood alone of it will be con-\\nquered, will be abolished, as it ought to\\nbe but the truth of it is part of Nature s\\nown Laws, co-operates with the World s\\neternal Tendencies, and cannot be con-\\nquered.\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 283\\nNovember i8th.\\nMusical how much Hes in that A\\nmusical thought is one spoken by a mind\\nthat has penetrated into the inmost\\nheart of the thing; detected the inmost\\nmystery of it, namely the melody that\\nlies hidden in it the inward harmony of\\ncoherence which is its soul, whereby it\\nexists, and has a right to be, here in this\\nworld. All inmost things, we may say,\\nare melodious naturally utter themselves\\nin Song. The meaning of Song goes\\ndeep. Who is there that, in logical\\nwords, can express the effect music has\\non us A kind of inarticulate unfathom-\\nable speech, which leads us to the edge\\nof the Infinite, and lets us for moments\\ngaze into that!\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "284 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nNovember i^th.\\nProperly speaking, the Land belongs\\nto these two To the Almighty God and\\nto all His Children of Alen that have\\never worked well on it, or that shall ever\\nwork well on it. No generation of men\\ncan or could, with never such solemnity\\nand effort, sell Land on any other prin-\\nciple: it is not the property of any gen-\\neration, wc say, but that of all the past\\ngenerations that have worked on it, and\\nof all the future ones that shall work on it.\\nFasi and Present.\\nNovember 20th.\\nIn these distracted times, writes he,\\nwhen the Religious Principle, driven\\nout of most Churches, either lies unseen\\nin the hearts of good men, looking and", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 285\\nlonging and silently working there to-\\nwards some new Revelation; or else\\nwanders homeless over the world, like a\\ndisembodied soul seeking its terrestrial\\norganisation, into how many strange\\nshapes, of Superstition and Fanaticism,\\ndoes it not tentatively and errantly cast\\nitself The higher Enthusiasm of man s\\nnature is for the while without Ex-\\nponent; yet must it continue indestruc-\\ntible, unweariedly active, and work\\nblindly in the great chaotic deep; thus\\nSect after Sect, and Church after Church,\\nbodies itself forth, and melts again into\\nnew metamorphosis.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nNovember 21st.\\nThe first man who, looking with\\nopened soul on this august Heaven and", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "286 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nEarth, this Beautiful and Awful, which\\nwe name Nature, Universe and such like,\\nthe essence of which remains forever\\nUnnameable he who first, gazing into\\nthis, fell on his knees, awestruck, in\\nsilence as is likeliest, he. driven by inner\\nnecessity, the audacious original that\\nhe was, had done a thing, too, which all\\nthoughtful hearts saw straightway to be\\nan expressive, altogether adoptable thing!\\nTo bow the knee was ever since the atti-\\ntude of supplication.\\nPast and Present.\\nNovember zzd.\\nIf in youth. writes he once, the\\nUniverse is majestically unveiling, and\\neverywhere Heaven revealing itself on\\nEarth, nowhere to the Young Man does", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 287\\nthis Heaven on Earth so immediately\\nreveal itself as in the Young Maiden.\\nStrangely enough, in this strange life of\\nours, it has been so appointed. On the\\nwhole, as I have often said, a Person\\n(Personlichkeit) is ever holy to us; a\\ncertain orthodox Anthropomorphism\\nconnects my Me with all Thees in bonds\\nof Love: but it is in this approximation\\nof the Like and Unlike, that such\\nheavenly attraction, as between Negative\\nand Positive, first burns out into a flame.\\nIs the pitifulest mortal Person, think you,\\nindifferent to us? Is it not rather our\\nheartfelt wish to be made one with him\\nto unite him to us, by gratitude, by ad-\\nmiration, even by fear; or failing all\\nthese, unite ourselves to him? But how\\nmuch more in this case of the Like-Un-", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "288 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nlike Here is conceded us the higher\\nmystic possibility of such a union, the\\nhighest in our Earth thus in the con-\\nducing medium of Fantasy, flames forth\\nthat /?r^-development of the universal\\nSpiritual Electricity, which, as unfolded\\nbetween man and woman, we first em-\\nphatically denominate Love.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nNovember 2jd.\\nFire is the best of servants but what\\na master\\nFast mnd Present.\\nNovember 24th.\\nCurious, I say, and not sufficiently con-\\nsidered how everything does co-operate\\nwith all; not a leaf rotting on the high-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 289\\nway but is indissoluble portion of solar\\nand stellar systems no thought, word\\nor act of man but has sprung withal out\\nof all men and works sooner or later\\nrecognisably or irrecognisably, on all\\nmen!\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nNovember 25th.\\nHell generally signifies the Infinite\\nTerror, the thing a man is infinitely\\nafraid of, and shudders and shrinks from,\\nstruggling with his whole soul to escape\\nfrom it. There is a Hell therefore, if\\nyou will consider, which accompanies\\nman, in all stages of his history, and\\nreligious or other development; but the\\nHells of men and Peoples differ notably.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "290 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nWith Christians it is the infinite terror\\nof being found guilty before the Just\\nJudge.\\nPast and Presettt.\\nNovember 26th.\\nNo Chaos can continue chaotic with a\\nsoul in it. Besouled with earnest human\\nNobleness, did not slaughter, violence\\nand fire-eyed fury, grow into a chivalry;\\ninto a blessed Loyalty of Governor and\\nGoverned\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nNovember 2yth.\\nMan s philosophies are usually the\\nsupplement of his practice; some orna-\\nmental Logic-varnish, some outer skin", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 291\\nof Articulate Intelligence, with which he\\nstrives to render his dumb Instinctive\\nDoings presentable when they are done.\\nPast and Present.\\nNovember 28th.\\nEffect? Influence? Utility? Let a\\nman do his work; the fruit of it is the\\ncare of another than he.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nNovember 2Qth.\\nSeek through this Universe; if with\\nother than owl s eyes, thou wilt find\\nnothing nourished there, nothing kept in\\nlife, but what has right to nourishment\\nand life.\\nPast and Present.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "292 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nNovember ^olJi.\\nBending before men, if it is not to\\nbe a mere empty grimace, better dispensed\\nwith than practised, is Hero-worship, a\\nrecognition that there does dwell in that\\npresence of our brother somethmg\\ndivine that every created man, as Nova-\\nlis said, is a revelation in the Flesh.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "DECEMBER", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "December ist.\\nMeanwhile, we will hate Anarchy as\\nDeath, which it is and the things worse\\nthan Anarchy shall be .hated more!\\nSurely Peace alone is fruitful. Anarchy\\nis destruction: a burning up, say, of\\nShams and Insupportabilities but which\\nleaves Vacancy behind. Know this also,\\nthat out of a world of Unwise nothing\\nbut an Unwisdom can be made. Arrange\\nit, -Constitution-build it, sift it through\\nBallot-Boxes as thou wilt, it is and re-\\nmains an Unwisdom,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the new prey of\\nnew quacks and unclean things, the latter\\nend of it is slightly better than the be-\\nginning. Who can bring a wise thing\\nout of men unwise? Not one.\\nFrench Revolution.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "296 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nDecember 2d.\\nNature s Laws, I must repeat, are\\neternal her small still voice, speaking\\nfrom the inmost heart of us, shall not,\\nunder terrible penalties, be disregarded.\\nNo man can depart from the truth with-\\nout damage to himself; no one million\\nof men no Twenty-seven Millions of\\nmen. Show me a Nation fallen every-\\nwhere into this course, so that each ex-\\npects it, permits it to others and himself,\\nI will show you a Nation travelling with\\none assent on the broad way. The broad\\nway, however many Banks of England,\\nCotton-Mills and Duke s Palaces, it may\\nhave! Not at happy Elysian fields, and\\neverlasting crowns of victory, earned by", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 297\\nsilent Valour, will this Nation arrive;\\nbut at precipices, devouring gulfs, if it\\npause not.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember ^d.\\nFor the Scepticism, as I said, is not\\nintellectual only; it is moral also; a\\nchronic atrophy and disease of the whole\\nsoul. A man lives by believing some-\\nthing; not by debating and arguing\\nabout many things. A sad case for him\\nwhen all that he can manage to believe is\\nsomething he can button in his pocket,\\nand with one or the other organ eat and\\ndigest Lower than that he will not get.\\nWe call those ages in which he gets so\\nlow, the mournfulest, sickest and mean-\\nest of all ages. The world s heart is", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "298 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\npalsied, sick how can any limb of it be\\nwhole? Genuine Acting ceases in all\\ndepartments of the world s work dex-\\nterous Similitude of Acting begins. The\\nworld s wages are pocketed, the world s\\nwork is not done. Heroes have gone\\nout Quacks have come in.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember 4th.\\nIt is not to die, or even to die of\\nhunger, that makes a man wretched\\nmany men have died all men must die,\\nthe last exit of us all is in a Fire-Chariot\\nof Pain. But it is to live miserable we\\nknow not why to work sore and yet gain\\nnothing; to be heart-worn, weary, yet\\nisolated, unrelated, girt in with a cold\\nuniversal Laissez-faire it is to die slowly", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE agg\\nall our life long, imprisoned in a deaf,\\ndead. Infinite Injustice, as in the accursed\\niron belly of a Phalaris Bull\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 5th.\\nBookkeeping by double entry is ad-\\nmirable, and records several things in\\nan exact manner. But the Mother\\nDestinies also keep their Tablets; in\\nHeaven s Chancery also there goes on a\\nrecording; and things as my Moslem\\nfriends say, are written on the iron\\nleaf.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 6th.\\nThe Great Man s sincerity is of the\\nkind he cannot speak of, is not conscious\\nof; nay, I suppose he is conscious rather", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "300 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nof ^sincerity for what man can walk\\naccurately by the law of truth for one\\nday No, the Great Man does not boast\\nhimself sincere, far from that; perhaps\\ndoes not ask himself if he is so: I would\\nsay rather, his sincerity does not depend\\non himself he cannot help being sincere\\nThe great Fact of Existence is great to\\nhim. Fly as he will, he cannot get out\\nof the awful presence of this Reality.\\nHis mind is so made he is great by that,\\nfirst of all. Fearful and wonderful, real\\nas Life, real as Death, is this Universe\\nto him. Though all men should forget\\nits truth, and walk in a vain show, he\\ncannot. At all moments the Flame-\\nimage glares-in upon him; undeniable,\\nthere, there!\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 301\\nDecember yth.\\nA Soul is not like wind {spiritiis, or\\nbreath) contained within a capsule; the\\nAlmighty Maker is not like a Clock-\\nmaker that once, in old immemorial ages,\\nhaving made his Horologe of a Universe,\\nsits ever since and sees it go Not at\\nall.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 8th.\\nNay all speech, even the commonest\\nspeech, has something of song in it not\\na parish in the world but has its parish-\\naccent; the rhythm or /^//z^ to which\\nthe people there sing what, they have\\nto say Accent is a kind of chanting\\nall men have accent of their own,\\nthough they only notice that of others.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "302 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nObserve too how all passionate language\\ndoes of itself become musical, with a\\nfiner music than the mere accent the\\nspeech of a man even in zealous anger\\nbecomes a chant, a song. All deep things\\nare Song. It seems somehow the very\\ncentral essence of us. Song; as if all the\\nrest were but wrappages and hulls The\\nprimal clement of us; of us, and of all\\nthings.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember gth.\\nMan is created to fight he is perhaps\\nbest of all definable as a born soldier his\\nlife a battle and a march, under the\\nright General. It is forever indispen-\\nsable for a man to fight: now with\\nNecessity, with Barrenness, Scarcity,", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 303\\nwith Puddles, Bogs, tangled Forests, un-\\nkempt Cotton now also with the hallu-\\ncinations of his poor fellow Men.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember loth.\\nIf thou ask to what height man has\\ncarried it in this manner, look on our\\ndivinest Symbol: on Jesus of Nazareth,\\nand his Life, and his Biography, and\\nwhat followed therefrom. Higher has\\nthe human Thought not yet reached:\\nthis is Christianity and Christendom; a\\nSymbol of quite perennial infinite char-\\nacter; whose significance will ever de-\\nmand to be anew inquired into, and anew\\nmade manifest.\\nSartor Resartus,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "304 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nDecember lUh.\\nAll great Peoples are conservative;\\nslow to believe novelties patient of niiich\\nerror in actualities; deeply and forever\\ncertain of the greatness that is in Law,\\nin Custom once solemnly-established,\\nand now long recognised as just and\\nfinal.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 12th.\\nHow true is that of Novalis: It is\\ncertain, my Belief gains quite infinitely\\nthe moment I can conceive another mind\\nthereof!\\nSartor Resartus.\\nDecember i^th.\\nDeeds are greater than Words. Deeds\\nhave such a life, mute but undeniable", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 305\\nand grow as living trees and fruit-trees\\ndo they people the vacuity of Time, and\\nmake it green and worthy. Why should\\nthe oak prove logically that it ought to\\ngrow, and will grow Plant it, try it\\nwhat gifts of diligent judicious assimila-\\ntion and secretion it has, of progress and\\nresistance, of force to grow, will then de-\\nclare themselves.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 14th.\\nGreat souls are always loyally sub-\\nmissive, reverent to what is over them\\nonly small mean souls are otherwise. I\\ncould not find a better proof of what I\\nsaid the other day, That the sincere man\\nwas by nature the obedient man that\\nonly in a world of Heroes was there loyal", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "3o6 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nObedience to the Heroic. The essence\\nof originaHty is not that it may be new\\nJohnson beHeved altogether in the old\\nhe found the old opinions credible for\\nhim, fit for him and in a right heroic\\nmanner lived under them. He is well\\nworth study in regard to that.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember i^th.\\nAnd now what is it, if you pierce\\nthrough his Cants, his oftrepeated Hear-\\nsays, what he calls his Worships and so\\nforth, what is it that the modern English\\nsoul does, in very truth, dread infinitely,\\nand contemplate with entire despair?\\nWhat is his Hell after all these reputable\\noft-repeated Hearsays, what is it? With\\nhesitation, with astonishment, I pro-", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 307\\nnounce it to be The terror of Not suc-\\nceeding; of not making money, fame,\\nor some other figure in the world,\\nchiefly of not making money Is not\\nthat a somewhat singular Hell?\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember i6th.\\nWhat of the world and its victories?\\nMen speak too much about the world.\\nEach one of us here, let the world go\\nhow it will, and be victorious, or not vic-\\ntorious, has he not a Life of his own to\\nlead? One Life; a little gleam of Time\\nbetween two Eternities no second chance\\nto us forevermore It wxre well for us\\no live not as fools and simulacra, but as\\nwise and realities. The world s being\\nsaved will not save us; nor the world s", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "3o8 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nbeing lost destroy us. We should look\\nto ourselves there is great merit here in\\nthe duty of staying at home And on\\nthe whole, to say truth, I never heard of\\nworlds being saved in any other\\nway. For the saving of the world I will\\ntrust confidently to the Maker of the\\nworld and look a little to my own sav-\\ning, which I am more competent to\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember i/fh.\\nAll Fighting, as we noticed long ago,\\nis the dusty conflict of strengths each\\nthinking itself the strongest, or, in other\\nwords, the justest; of Mights which do\\nin the long-run, and forever will in this\\njust Universe in the long-run, mean\\nRights. In conflict the perishable part", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 309\\nof them, beaten sufficiently flies off into\\ndust: this process ended, appears the\\nimperishable, the true and exact.\\nPast atid Present.\\nDecember i8th.\\nThe highest Voice ever heard on this\\nearth said withal, Consider the lilies\\nof the field, they toil not neither do they\\nspin: yet Solomon in all his glory was\\nnot arrayed like one of these. A glance,\\nthat, into the deepest deep of Beauty.\\nThe lilies of the field, dressed finer\\nthan earthly princes, springing-up there\\nin the humblefurrow-field a beautiful\\neye looking out on you, from the great\\ninner Sea of Beauty How could the\\nrude Earth make these, if her Essence,\\nrugged as she looks and is, were not\\ninwardly Beauty?\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "3IO BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nDecember iptJi.\\nO thank thy Destiny for these thank-\\nfully bear what yet remain thou hadst\\nneed of them the Self in thee needed to\\nbe annihilated. By benignant fever-\\nparoxysms is Life rooting out the deep-\\nseated chronic Disease, and triumphs\\nover Death. On the roaring billows of\\nTime, thou art not engulphed, but borne\\naloft into the azures of Eternity. Love\\nnot Pleasure; love God. This is the\\nEverlasting Yea, wherein all contra-\\ndiction is solved wherein whoso walks\\nand works, it is well with him.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nDecember 20th.\\nThe only happiness a brave man ever\\ntroubled himself with asking much about\\nwas, happiness enough to get his work", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 3 1 1\\ndone. Not I can t eat! but I can t\\nwork! that was the burden of all wise\\ncomplaining among men. It is, after all,\\nthe one unhappiness of a man. That he\\ncannot work; that he cannot get his\\ndestiny as a man fulfilled. Behold, the\\nday is passing swiftly over, cur life is\\npassing swiftly over and the night Com-\\neth, wherein no man can work. The\\nnight once come, our happiness, our un-\\nhappiness, it is all abolished.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 21st.\\nBelief I define to be the healthy act of\\na man s mind. It is a mysterious in-\\ndescribable process, that of getting to\\nbelieve; indescribable, as all vital acts\\nare. We have our mind given us, not", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "312 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nthat it may cavil and argue, but that it\\nmay see into something, give us clear\\nbelief and understanding about some-\\nthing, whereon we are then to proceed to\\nact. Doubt, truly, is not itself a crime.\\nCertainly we do not rush out, clutch-up\\nthe first thing we find, and straightway\\nbelieve that All manner of doubt, in-\\nquiry, cTKei/zts as it is named, about all\\nmanner of objects, dwells in every reason-\\nable mind. It is the mystic working of\\nthe mind, on the object it is getting to\\nknow and believe. Belief comes out of\\nall this, above ground, like the tree from\\nits hidden roots.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember 22d.\\nThe great unique heart how like a\\nchild s in its simplicity, like a man s in", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 313\\nits earnest solemnity and depth Heaven\\nlies over him wheresoever he goes or\\nstands on Earth making all the Earth a\\nmystic Temple to him, the Earth s busi-\\nness all a kind of worship. Glimpses of\\nbright creatures flash in the common\\nsunlight angels yet hover doing God s\\nmessages among men that rainbow was\\nset in the clouds by the hand of God\\nWonder, miracle encompass the man he\\nlives in an element of miracle Heaven s\\nsplendour over his head, Hell s darkness\\nunder his feet. A great Law of Duty,\\nhigh as these two Infinities, dwarfing all\\nelse, annihilating all else.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 2^d.\\nSociety, says he, is not dead; that\\nCarcass, which you call dead Society,", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "314 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nis but her mortal coil which she has\\nshuffled off, to assume a nobler she her-\\nself, through perpetual metamorphoses,\\nin fairer and fairer development, has to\\nlive till Time also merge m Eternity.\\nWheresoever two or three Living Men\\nare gathered together, there is Society;\\nor there it will be, with its cunning\\nmechanisms and stupendous structures,\\noverspreading this little Globe, and reach-\\ning upwards to Heaven and downwards\\nto Gehenna: for always, under one or\\nthe other figure, it has two authentic\\nRevelations, of a God and of a Devil;\\nthe Pulpit, namely and the Gallows.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nDecember 24th.\\nThe spoken Word, the written Poem,\\nis said to be an epitome of the man how", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 315\\nmuch more the done Work. Whatso-\\never of morahty and of intelhgence;\\nwhat of patience, perseverance, faithful-\\nness, of method, insight, ingenuity,\\nenergy; in a word, whatsoever of\\nStrength the man had in him will lie\\nwritten in the Work he does. To Work\\nwhy, it is to try himself against Nature,\\nand her everlasting unerring Laws these\\nwill tell a true verdict as to the man.\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 25th.\\nA cause, the noblest of causes kindles\\nitself, like a beacon set on high high as\\nHeaven, yet attainable from Earth;\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nwhereby the meanest man becomes not\\na Citizen only, but a member of Christ s\\nvisible Church a veritable Hero, if he\\nprove a true man.\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "3i6 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nDecember 26th.\\nFor strangely in this so solid-seeming\\nWorld, which nevertheless is in continual\\nrestless flux, it is appointed that Sound,\\nto appearance the most fleeting, should\\nbe the most continuing of all things.\\nThe Word is well said to be omnipotent\\nin this world man, thereby divine, can\\ncreate as by a Fiat.\\nSartor Resartus.\\nDecemher 2ph.\\nBut this I do say, and would wish all\\nmen to know and lay to heart, that he who\\ndiscerns nothing but Mechanism in the\\nUniverse has in the fatalest way missed\\nthe secret of the Universe altogether.\\nThat all Godhood should vanish out of\\nmen s conception of this Universe seems", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMA S CA RL YLE 3 1 7\\nto me precisely the most brutal error,\\nI will not disparage Heathenism by call-\\ning it a Heathen error, that men could\\nfall into. It is not true it is false at the\\nvery heart of it. A man who thinks so\\nwill think zvrong about all things in the\\nworld this original sin will vitiate all\\nother conclusions he can form. One\\nmight call it the most lamentable of De-\\nlusions, not forgetting Witchcraft it-\\nself! Witchcraft worshipped at least a\\nliving Devil but this worships a dead\\niron Devil no God, not even a Devil\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember 28th.\\nFor if a noble soul is rendered tenfold\\nbeauti fuller by victory and prosperity,\\nspringing now radiant as into his own", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "3i8 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\ndue element and sun-throne an ignoble\\none is rendered tenfold and hundredfold\\nuglier, pitifuller. Whatsoever vices,\\nw^hatsoever weaknesses were in the man,\\nthe parvenu will show us them enlarged,\\nas in the solar microscope, into frightful\\ndistortion. Nay, how many mere semi-\\nnal principles of vice, hitherto all whole-\\nsomely kept latent, may we now see un-\\nfolded, as in the solar hot-house, into\\ngrowth, into huge universally-conspicu-\\nous luxuriance and development\\nPast and Present.\\nDecember 2^th.\\nIn the garden at Wittenberg one even-\\ning at sunset, a little bird has perched for\\nthe night That little bird, says Luther,\\nabove it are stars and deep Heaven of", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "FROM THOMAS CARLYLE 319\\nworlds yet it has folded its little wings\\ngone trustfully to rest there as in its\\nhome the Maker of it has given it too\\na home\\nHeroes and Hero Worship.\\nDecember ^oth.\\nWheresoever thou findest Disorder,\\nthere is thy eternal enemy; attack him\\nswiftly, subdue him make Order of him,\\nthe subject not of Chaos, but of Intelli-\\ngence, Divinity and Thee\\nPas^ and Present.\\nDecember ^ist.\\nAnd so here, O Reader, has the time\\ncome for us two to part. Toilsome was\\nour journeying together; not without\\noffense but it is done. To me thou wert", "height": "2752", "width": "1864", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "320 BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS\\nas a beloved shade, the disembodied or\\nnot yet embodied spirit of a Brother. To\\nthee I was but as a oice. Yet was our\\nrelation a kind of sacred one doubt not\\nthat Whatsoever once sacred things\\nbecome hollow jargons, yet while the\\nV^oice of Man speaks with Man, hast thou\\nnot there the living fountain out of which\\nall sacredness sprang, and will yet\\nspring? Man. by the nature of him, is\\ndefinable as an incarnated Word. Ill\\nstands it with me if I have spoken\\nfalsely: thine also it was to hear truly.\\nFarewell.\\nP ench Revolution.", "height": "2747", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "beautifulthought00carl_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "Beautiful Thoughts:\\nSelections for Every Day from\\nthe writings of the Best Authors\\nHandsomely bound in colored\\ncloths, gold stamp and photo-\\ngravure of author inlaid on cover.\\n75 cents per volume.\\nWILLIAM E. GLADSTONE se-\\nlections arranged by Elizabeth Cure-\\nton.\\nHENRY DRUMMOND selections\\narranged by Elizabeth Cure ton.\\nGEORGE MacDONALD sdtc\\nCHARLES KINGSLEY selections\\narranged by P. W. Wilson.\\nBULWER-LYTTON selections\\narranged by P. W. Wilson.\\nROBERT and ELIZABETH\\nBROWNING selections arranged\\nby Margaret Shipp.\\nTHOMAS CARLYLE selections\\narranged by P. W. 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