of Letters (1888), and Carlyle’s correspondence with Emerson (1883) and with Goethe (1887). Other volumes of correspondence are New Letters (1904), Carlyle Intime (1907), Love Letters (1909), Letters to Mill, Sterling, and Browning (1923), all ed. by Alexander Carlyle. See also Last Words of Carlyle, 1892.
The fullest Life is that by D. A. Wilson. The first of six volumes appeared in 1923, and by 1934 only one remained to be published.
SARTOR RESARTUS
BOOK I
CHAP. PAGE
1 Preliminary 1
2 Editorial Difficulties 5
3 Reminiscences 9
4 Characteristics 20
5 The World in Clothes 25
6 Aprons 31
7 Miscellaneous-historical 34
8 The World out of Clothes 37
9 Adamitism 43
10 Pure Reason 47
11 Prospective 52
BOOK II
1 Genesis 61
2 Idyllic 68
3 Pedagogy 76
4 Getting under Way 90
5 Romance 101
6 Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh 112
7 The Everlasting No 121
8 Centre of Indifference 128
9 The Everlasting Yea 138
10 Pause 149
BOOK III
1 Incident in Modern History 156
2 Church-Clothes 161
3 Symbols 163
4 Helotage 170
5 The Phœnix 174
6 Old Clothes 179
7 Organic Filaments 183
8 Natural Supernaturalism 191
9 Circumspective 201
10 The Dandiacal Body 204
11 Tailors 216
12 Farewell 219
Appendix—Testimonies of Authors 225
Summary 231
ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY
LECTURE I
The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology 239
LECTURE II
The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet: Islam 277
LECTURE III
The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakspeare 311
LECTURE IV
The Hero as Priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism 346
LECTURE V
The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns 383
LECTURE VI
The Hero as King. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern Revolutionism 422
Index 469
SARTOR RESARTUS
BOOK FIRST
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five-thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rush-lights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or doghole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated—it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes.
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