Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. · Thomas Carlyle
INDEX.
Alison, Dr., 5, 185. Anger, 114. Anselm, travelling to Rome, 306. Apes, Dead-Sea, 190, 270, 272. Arab Poets, 107. Aristocracy of Talent, 34; dreadfully difficult to attain, 37, 41, 299; our Phantasm-Aristocracy, 175, 215, 220, 242, 252, 270, 348, 364; duties of an Aristocracy, 213, 220, 240; Working Aristocracy, 216, 222, 335, 366; no true Aristocracy, but must possess the Land, 218, 304; Nature's Aristocracies, 264; a Virtual Aristocracy everywhere and everywhen, 300; the Feudal Aristocracy no imaginary one, 304, 338. Army, the, 321. Arrestment of the knaves and dastards, 43, 303. Atheism, practical, 184, 192. Battlefield, a, 238. See Fighting. Becket, 297, 307. Beginnings, 157. Benefactresses, 262. Benthamee Radicalism, 36. Berserkir rage, 205. Bible of Universal History, 298. Blockheads, danger of, 111. Bobus of Houndsditch, 38, 41, 363. Bonaparte flung out to St. Helena, 239. Books, 51. Bribery, 312. Brindley, 199. Bucaniering, 239. Burns, 42, 108, 254, 350. Byron's life-weariness, 193, 356. Cant, 76. Canute, King, 60. Cash-payment not the sole relation of human beings, 183, 235, 242; love of men cannot be bought with cash, 336. Centuries, the, lineally related to each other, 51, 63. Chactaw Indian, 238. Champion of England, the, 'lifted into his saddle,' 176. Chancery Law-Courts, 319, 322. China, Pontiff-Emperor of, 290. Chivalry of Labour, 237, 336, 341, 346, 355, 364. Christianity, grave of, 174; the Christian Law of God found difficult and inconvenient, 208; the Christian Religion not accomplished by Prize-Essays, 233, 236, 251; or by a minimum of Four-thousand-five-hundred, 363. See New Testament.
Church, the English, 209, 322; Church Articles, 280; what a Church-Apparatus _might_ do, 301. Coeur-de-Lion, 57, 131; King Richard, too, knew a man when he saw him, 144. Colonies, England's sure markets among her, 329. Columbus, royalest Sea-king of all, 248. Competition and Devil take the hindmost, 229, 233; abatement of, 334. Conscience, 137, 281. Conservatism, noble and ignoble, 12, 15; John Bull a born Conservative, 203; Justice alone _capable_ of being 'conserved,' 205. Corn-Laws, unimaginable arguments for the, 8, 30, 188, 203; bitter indignation in every just English heart, 206; ultimate basis of, 215; mischief and danger of, 220, 226, 258; after the Corn-Laws are ended, 231, 311, 318; what William Conqueror would have thought of them, 266. Cromwell, and his terrible lifelong wrestle, 24; by far our remarkablest Governor, 275. Crusades, the, 144. Custom, reverence for, 203. Dandy, the genus, 160. Death, eternal, 286. See Life. Debt, 113. Democracy, 260; close of kin to Atheism, 267; walking the streets everywhere, 310. Despotism reconciled with Freedom, 346. Destiny, didactic, 45. Dilettantism, 60, 146, 154, 212; gracefully idle in Mayfair, 188. Dupes and Quacks, 33. Duty, infinite nature of, 137, 145. Economics, necessity of, 113. Editor's, the purpose to himself full of hope, 46; his stipulated work, 331. Edmund, St., 65; on the rim of the horizon, 136; opening the Shrine of, 148.
Edmundsbury, St., 60. Education Service, an effective, possible, 328. Election, the one important social act, 94; electoral winnowing-machines, 98, 106. Emigration, 329. England, full of wealth, yet dying of inanition, 3; the guidance of, not wise enough, 34, 335; England of the year '1200,' 57, 62, 79, 139, 303; disappearance of our English Forests, 122; this England, the practical summary of English Heroism, 165; now nearly eaten up by puffery and unfaithfulness, 180; real Hell of the English, 182; of all Nations, the stupidest in speech, the wisest in action, 197, 211; unspoken sadness, 200; conservatism, 203; Berserkir rage, 205; a Future, wide as the world, if we have heart and heroism for it, 330. Essex, Henry Earl of, 134, 281. Experience, 361. Fact and Semblance, 17; and Fiction, 59. Fame, the thing called, 161, 166. See Posterity. Fighting, all, an ascertainment who has the right to rule over whom, 17, 302; murderous Fighting become a 'glorious Chivalry,' 237. Flunkies, whom no Hero-King _can_ reign over, 43. See Valets. Forests, disappearance of, 122. Formulas, the very skin and muscular tissue of Man's Life, 157, 160. Fornham, battle of, 65. French Donothing Aristocracy, 223; the French Revolution a voice of God, though in wrath, 286, 337. Funerals, Cockney, 155. Future, the, already extant though unseen, 308; England's Future, 330. See Past.
Geese, with feathers and without, 187. Genius, what meant by, 107, 359. Gideon's fleece, 247. Gifted, the, 355. God, forgetting, 171; God's Justice, 238, 284; belief in God, 275; proceeding 'to invent God,' 281. Goethe, 292, 350; his _Mason-Lodge_, 293. Gossip preferable to pedantry, 63; seven centuries off, 92, 97. Governing, art of, 110, 112; Lazy Governments, 319; every Government the symbol of its People, 333. Great Man, a, 249. See Wisdom. Gurth, born thrall of Cedric the Saxon, 263, 303, 310. Habit, the deepest law of human nature, 158. Hampden's coffin opened, 149. Happy, pitiful pretensions to be, 192; happiness of getting one's work done, 195. Hat, perambulating, seven-feet high, 177. Healing Art, the, a sacred one, 5. Heaven and Hell, our notions of, 181. Heaven's Chancery, 236, 242. Hell, real, of a man, 85; Hell of the English, 182, 334. Henry II. choosing an Abbot, 99; his Welsh wars, 135; on his way to the Crusades, 144; our brave Plantagenet Henry, 302. Henry VIII., 123. Hercules, 225, 255. Heroic Promised-Land, 45. Hero-worship, 41, 70, 150, 153, 282, 305, 352; what Heroes have done for us, 165, 179. History, Philosophical, 297, 298. Horses, able and willing to work, 28; Goethe's thoughts about the Horse, 197. Howel Davies, the Bucanier, 239. Hugo, Abbot, old, feeble and improvident, 73; his death, 78; difficulties with Monk Samson, 90.
Ideal, the, in the Real, 73, 237. Idleness alone without hope, 183; Idle Aristocracy, 216, 222, 252, 348. Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, 47, 161, 309. Ignorance, our Period of, 299. Iliad, the, 163. Impossible, 24, 28; without _soul_, all things impossible, 186; every noble work at first 'impossible,' 247, 255, 364. Independence, 353. Industry, Captains of, 240, 258, 335, 355, 362; our Industrial Ages, 309. Infancy and Maturity, 159. Injustice the one thing intolerable, 262. Insanity, strange affinity of Wisdom and, 256. Insurrections, 19. Invention, 161. Irish Widow, an, _proving_ her sisterhood, 186, 262. Isolation the sum-total of wretchedness, 338. Jew debts and creditors, 74, 113, 115; Benedict and the tooth-forceps, 225. Jocelm of Brakelond, 51; his Boswellean Notebook seven centuries old, 52. John, King, 57, 131. Justice, the basis of all things, 12, 24, 138, 205; what is Justice, 17, 266; a just judge, 119; venerable Wigged-Justice began in Wild-Justice, 164; God's Justice alone strong, 238, 358. See Parchments. Kilkenny Cats, 319. King, the true and the sham, 103, 110, 273; the Ablest Man, the virtual King, 276; again _be_ a King, 310; the proper name of all Kings, Minister, Servant, 320. 'Know thyself,' 244. Labour, to be King of this Earth, 212; Organisation of, 243, 260, 318; perennial nobleness and sacredness in, 244. See Chivalry, Work. _Laissez-faire_, 229; general breakdown of, 232, 233.
Lakenheath eels, 81. Landlords, past and present, 67; Landowning, 215; whom the Land belongs to, 218; the mission of a Land Aristocracy a _sacred_ one, 305, 348. Laughter, 189. Law, gradual growth of, 163; the Maker's Laws, 284. See Chancery. Legislative interference, 326. Liberty, true meaning of, 263, 269. Life, the, to come, 208, 286; Life never a May-game for men, 261, 357. Literature, noble and ignoble, 129. Liturgies, 162. Liverpool, 83. Loadstar, a, in the eternal sky, 15. Logical futilities, 199, 202. Machinery, exporting, 228. Mahomet, 351. Mammon, not a god at all, 85; Gospel of Mammonism, 181, 236; Working Mammonism better than Idle Dilettantism, 183, 188, 257; getting itself strangled, 228; fall of Mammon, 334, 362; Mammon like Fire, 355. See Economics. Man the Missionary of Order, 114, 285; sacredness of the human Body, 155; a born Soldier, 238; a God-created Soul, 285. See Great Man. Manchester Insurrection, 19; poor Manchester operatives, 22, 62; Manchester in the twelfth century, 83; even sooty Manchester built on the infinite Abysses, 283. Marriage-contracts, 342, 344. Master, eye of the, 114. Meat-jack, a disconsolate, 195. Methodism, 76, 84, 146. Midas, 3, 9. Mights and Rights, 238. Millocracy, our giant, 175. Milton's 'wages,' 24. Misery, all, the fruit of unwisdom, 34; strength, that has not yet found its way, 357. Monks, ancient and modern, 55; the old monks not without secularity, 76, 84; insurrection of monks, 125.
Morality, 203. Morrison's Pill, 29; men's 'Religion' a kind of, 282. Moses and the Dwellers by the Dead-Sea, 190. Mungo Park, 262. National Misery the result of national misguidance, 34. Nationality, 159. Nature, not dead, but alive and miraculous, 36. Negro Slavery and White Nomadism, 342. New Testament, 236, 359. Nobleness, meaning of, 224. Obedience, 110. Oblivion a still resting-place, 166. Organising, what may be done by, 323, 336. Originality, 162. See Path-making. Over-production, charge of, 213, 253. Pandarus Dogdraught, 305, 315. Parchments, venerable and not venerable, 216, 225. Parliament and the Courts of Westminster, 12, 319; a Parliament starting with a lie in its mouth, 314. Past, Present and Future, 47, 298, 310, 331. Path-making, 158. Pedantry, 61. Permanence the first condition of all fruitfulness, 341, 344. Peterloo, 21. Pilate, 17. Pity, 70. Plugson of Undershot, 235, 257. Pope, the old, with stuffed devotional rump, 173. Posterity, appealing to, 279. See Fame. Potter's Wheel, significance of the, 245. Practice, the Man of, 199. Prayer, faithful unspoken, 284; praying _by working_, 288. Premier, what a wise, might do, 321. See Windbag. Priest, the noble, 300. Puffery, all-deafening blast of, 177. Puritanism, giving way to decent Formalism, 209. Puseyism, 146, 364. Quacks and sham-heroes, 33, 103, 177, 185, 277. Quaker's, a manufacturing, care for his workmen, 343, 361. Ready-Reckoner, strange state of our, 204.
Reform, like Charity, must begin at home, 43. Religion, a great heaven-high Unquestionability, 76, 84, 145; our religion gone, 171; all true Work, Religion, 250; foolish craving for a 'New Religion,' 280, 287; inner light of a man's soul, 281. See Prayer, Worship. Richard I. See Coeur-de-Lion. Robert de Montfort, 136. Rokewood, Mr., 55. Roman Conquests, 201. Rome, a tour to, in the twelfth century, 88. Russians, the silent, worth something, 198, 201; the Czar of Russia, 225. Saints and Sinners, 68. Sam-Slicks, vagrant, 346. Samson, Monk, teacher of the Novices, 77; his parentage, dream, and dedication to St. Edmund, 87; sent to Rome, 88; home-tribulations, 90; silence and weariness, 93; though a servant of servants, his words all tell, 97; elected Abbot, 102; arrival at St. Edmundsbury, 105; getting to work, 108, 112; his favour for fit men, 117; not unmindful of kindness, 118; a just clear-hearted man, 119; hospitality and stoicism, 121; troubles and triumphs, 124; in Parliament, 131; practical devotion, 139; Bishop of Ely outwitted, 141; King Richard withstood, 143; zealous interest in the Crusades, 144; a glimpse of the Body of St. Edmund, 149; the culminating point of his existence, 155. Sanitary Reform, 326. Satanas, the true, that now is, 302. Sauerteig, on Nature, 35; our reverence for Death and for Life, 155; the real Hell of the English, 182; fashionable Wits, 189; symbolic influences of Washing, 289.
Saxon Heptarchy, 17. Schnuespel, the distinguished Novelist, 70. Scotch Covenanters, 278. Scotland, destitution in, 5. Scott, Sir W., on the Apennines, 345. Selfishness, 36, 41. Silence, invaluable talent of, 120, 201, 298; unsounded depth of, 249, 251; two Silences of Eternity, 283. Sliding-Scales, 223, 231. See Corn-Laws. Soldier, the, 321. Sorrow, Worship of, 192. Soul and conscience, need for some, 32, 98, 237, 287; to save the 'expense of salt,' 62; man has lost the _soul_ out of him, 172, 191. Speech and jargon, difference between, 31; invention of articulate speech, 161; insincere speech, 189; the Speaking Man wandering terribly from the point, 301. See Silence. Sphinx-riddle of Life, the, 10, 17; _our_ Sphinx-riddle, 22. Spinning Dervishes, 319. Sumptuary Laws, 269. Supply-and-demand, 232. Tailor-art, symbolism of the, 267. Taxes, where to lay the new, 304. Tears, beautifulest kind of, 70. Teufelsdroeckh on Democracy, 267. Theory, the Man of, 199. Thersites, 352. Thirty-nine Articles, 280. Tools and the Man, 308, 310. Unanimity in folly, 179. Unconscious, the, the alone complete, 145. Universe, general High Court of the, 13, 31, 225; a great unintelligible 'Perhaps,' 171; _become_ the Humbug it was thought to be, 190; a beggarly Universe, 234; the Universe made by Law, 284. Unseen, the, 255. Unwisdom, infallible fruits of, 39. Vacuum, and the serene Blue, 234. Valets and Heroes, 32, 103, 185, 273, 360; London valets dismissed annually to the streets, 342. See Flunkies.
Wages, fair day's, for fair day's work, 24, 253. Wallace, Scotland's debt to, 16. Washing, symbolic influences of, 289. Wealth, true, 345, 362. Weimar, Duke of, 350. Willelmus Conquaestor; 83, 241; a man of most flashing discernment and strong lion-heart, 265; not a vulturous Fighter, but a valorous Governor, 302. Willelmus Sacrista, 74, 86, 91, 101, 115. William Rufus; 302, 306; the quarrel of Rufus and Anselm a great quarrel, 307. Windbag, Sir Jabesh, 166, 275. Wisdom, how, has to struggle with Folly, 91, 92, 97, 163, 264; the higher the Wisdom the closer its kindred with Insanity, 256; a _wisest path_ for every man, 271; the Wise and Brave properly but one class, 300, 303, 366; the life of the Gifted not a May-game, but a battle and stern pilgrimage, 357. Wits, fashionable, 189. Women, born worshippers, 70. Work, world-wide accumulated, 164; endless hope in work, 183, 244; all work noble, 192; and eternal, 195; the work he has done, an epitome of the Man, 198, 246; Work is Worship, 250, 288; all Work a making of Madness sane, 256. See Labour. Workhouses, in which no work can be done, 4. Working Aristocracy, 216, 222, 335, 366; getting strangled, 228. Workmen, English, unable to find work, 4, 23; intolerable lot, 261. Worship, Forms of, 162; Scenic Theory of, 174; Apelike, 190; the truest, 250, 288. See Religion. Worth, human, and Worthlessness, 103. See Pandarus. Yankee Transcendentalists, 363. Transcriber's Notes: There are many inconsistently hyphenated words. I have left them the way they were in the original scans. The "w" letter in the Old English words is a wynn.
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