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Sartor Resartus, Heroes and Hero Worship, and Past and Present. [3 Vols. in 1].
Sartor Resartus Heroes and Hero Worship and Past and Present - 3 Vols. in 1 Author:Thomas Carlyle General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IIL REMINISCENCES. To the Author's private circle the appearance of this singular Work on Clothes must have occasioned little less surprise than it has to the rest of the world. For ourselves, at least, few things have been more unexpected. Professor Teufelsdrbckh, at the period of our acquaintance with him, seemed to lead a quite still and self-contained life : a man devoted to the higher Philosophies, indeed ; yet more likely, -if he published at all, to publish a Refutation of Hegel and Bardili, both of whom, strangely enough, he included under a common ban ; than to descend, as he has here done, into the angry noisy Forum, with an Argument that cannot but exasperate and divide. Not, that we can remember, was the Philosophy of Clothes once touched upon between us. If through the high, silent, meditative Transcendentalism of our Friend we detected any practical tendency whatever, it was at most Political, and towards a certain prospective, and for the present quite speculative, Radicalism; as indeed some correspondence, on his part, with Herr Oken of Jena was now and then suspected ; though his special contributions to the his could never be more than surmised at. But, at all events, nothing Moral, still less any thing Didactico-Religious, was looked for from him. Well do we recollect the last words he spoke in our hearing; which indeed, with the Night they were uttered in, are to be for ever remembered. Lifting his huge tumbler of Gnkguk and for a moment lowering his tobacco-pipe, he stood up in full coffee-house (it was Zur Griinen Ganse, the largest in Weissnrchtwo, where all the Virtuo...« less