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Excerpt from Thomas Carlyle: A Study of His Literary Apprenticeship, 1814-1831
Ing clearness. In fact, that which gives to each of his writings its highest value is a certain quality of vision, capable of dis cerning in person, event, or phenomenon of nature that which constitutes its spiritual center, in discovering, to use Carlyle's own phrase, the reality that lies at the bottom of appearance. Applied to the aspects of physical nature this faculty Ieads to a con viction of the Divine Idea of the Wor a belief that nature is only a transitory garment veiling the Eternal Splendour. Applied to the study of human history it results in an absorbing interest in spiritual biography as contrasted with picturesque gossip concerning the clothes, manners and motions of the outward man, and in an attempt to determine the spiritual origin and meaning, the dynamics, of historical events or of present society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
