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Not towards it, I say, if so! Unanimity of voting - that will do nothing for us if to. Your ship cannot double Cape Horn by its excellent plans of voting. The ship may vote this and that, above decks and below, in the most harmonious ex quisitely constitutional manner the ship, to get round Cape Horn, will find a set of conditions already voted for, and fixed with adamantine rigour by the ancient Elemental Powers, who are entirely careless how you vote. If you can, by voting or without voting, ascertain these conditions, and valiantly con form to them, you will get round the Cape if you cannot, the ruffian Winds will blow you ever back again; the inexor able Icebergs, dumb privy-councillors from Chaos, will nudge you with most chaotic 'admonition you will be flung half frozen on the Patagonian cliffs, or admonished into shivers by your iceberg councillors, and sent sheer down to Davy Jones, and will never get round Cape Horn at all! Unanimity on board ship -yes indeed, the ship's crew may be very unani mous, which doubtless, for the time being, will be very com fortable to the ship's crew, and to their Phantasm Captain if they have one but if the tack they unanimously steer upon is guiding them into the belly of the Abyss, it will not profit them much l - Ships accordingly do not use the ballot-box at all; and they reject the Phantasm species of Captains one wishes much some other Entities, - since all entities lie under the same rigorous set oflaws, - could be brought to show as much wis dom, and sense at least of self-preservation, the first command of Nature. Phantasm Captains with unanimous votings this is considered to be all the law and all the prophets, at present.
Ifa man could shake-out of his mind the universal noise rofpolitical doctors in this generation and in the last generation or two, and consider the matter face to face, with his own sin cere intelligence looking at it, I venture to say he would find this a very extraordinary method 0! Navigating, whether in the Straits of Magellan or the undiscovered Sea of Time. To pro sper in this world, to gain felicity, victory and improvement, either for a man or a nation, there is but one thing requisite, That the man or nation can discern what the true regulations of the Universe are in regard to him and his pursuit, and can faithfully and steadfastly follow these. These will lead him to victory; whoever it may be that sets him in the way of these, - were it Russian Autocrat, Chartist Parliament, Grand Lama.
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LatterDay Pamphlets Classic Reprint Thomas Carlyle 9781333051020 Books
It will strike the reflective mind with some surprise that this classic piece of Victorian sagacity from the year 1850, a milestone in socio-moral analysis, is not better known to the modern reader. Carlyle was the last great prophet of the Western tradition, who looked at the atheistic, money-grabbing, materialistic society around him, enthralled to such cants as utilitarianism and other materialist philosophies, and felt himself compelled to protest in the strongest possible terms about the moral dung-heap the world had become. He called for a complete overhaul of the system of government - of democracy he had seen quite enough. Democracy does not cause the wisest to be given power, but the talking-machine, the man dedicated not to wisdom but to the sham of wisdom, to all the arts of popularity and stump-oratory. Better far to cultivate the greatest virtue, Silence. The Talker is insincere, much given to cant and flummery. He has departed from the Eternal Laws of the Universe, and so has the society which has produced him, and of which he is the emblem.Carlyle called for the Organization of Labour, so in some respects one could perhaps call him a socialist, and, indeed, earlier works by Carlyle were favourably reviewed by Engels. Where Carlye differed from socialism was in that this organization was to be under the control of the wisest or ablest men, who were to reign tyranically, but with God's justice in their hearts. This was especially urgently required in the light of the Europe-wide revolutions of 1848. This year was not a glorious one in European history, said Mr C - quite the contrary, indeed! As he wrote on the first Pamphlet that makes up this collection, called "The Modern Age":
[W]e had the year 1848, one of the most singular, disastrous, amazing, and, on the whole, humiliating years the European world ever saw. Not since the irruption of the Northern Barbarians has there been the like. Everywhere immeasurable Democracy rose monstrous, loud, blatant, inarticulate as the voice of Chaos. Everywhere the Official holy-of-holies was scandalously laid bare to dogs and the profane
Quite so. Alas that this benighted age has not its own Thomas Carlyle to declaim such great truths from on high. Not only that, but we neglect even to read the man himself, as though his prophecies did not hold good for our own age! This foolishness must end, as an offense against the Eternal Verities of the Universe. There is only one Sage, and this is he, fittingly reverenced by many in his own time (Charles Dickens for example called him "the man who knows everything", and also said "I would go farther to see Carlyle than any man living". His Hard Times is also inscribed "To Thomas Carlyle"), shamefully neglected in ours - I say shamefully, yet also dangerously, catastrophically, for his lessons are the lessons of the universe, if we could but read it aright. He, taking up where his hero Goethe left off, read the open secret of the universe, and set it down for us - find a wiser than thee, and reverence him, for he is wise, and thou art a blockhead. In this we have the essence of Carlyle, and let us not forget it.
This edition has only the first 5 of the 8 pamphlets that Carlyle issued monthly during 1850. This incompleteness seems to be common to many editions, for reasons I'm unsure of. It's not easy to get all 8. On original publication, the Latter-Day Pamphlets met with some disfavour; his biographer Froude said they caused "universal offence". Yet some there were to hear their message, and Carlyle's reputation survived this offence. To our day, they are still more relevant, for what does our age lack more than Obedience, the first of all virtues? As Carlyle said elsewhere, "[A]ll men, and especially all women, are born worshippers, and will worship, if it be but possible." Consider this well, O foolish Reader, till the meaning of it begins to make itself felt, even to thy poor, faithless head.
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It will strike the reflective mind with some surprise that this classic piece of Victorian sagacity from the year 1850, a milestone in socio-moral analysis, is not better known to the modern reader. Carlyle was the last great prophet of the Western tradition, who looked at the atheistic, money-grabbing, materialistic society around him, enthralled to such cants as utilitarianism and other materialist philosophies, and felt himself compelled to protest in the strongest possible terms about the moral dung-heap the world had become. He called for a complete overhaul of the system of government - of democracy he had seen quite enough. Democracy does not cause the wisest to be given power, but the talking-machine, the man dedicated not to wisdom but to the sham of wisdom, to all the arts of popularity and stump-oratory. Better far to cultivate the greatest virtue, Silence. The Talker is insincere, much given to cant and flummery. He has departed from the Eternal Laws of the Universe, and so has the society which has produced him, and of which he is the emblem.
Carlyle called for the Organization of Labour, so in some respects one could perhaps call him a socialist, and, indeed, earlier works by Carlyle were favourably reviewed by Engels. Where Carlye differed from socialism was in that this organization was to be under the control of the wisest or ablest men, who were to reign tyranically, but with God's justice in their hearts. This was especially urgently required in the light of the Europe-wide revolutions of 1848. This year was not a glorious one in European history, said Mr C - quite the contrary, indeed! As he wrote on the first Pamphlet that makes up this collection, called "The Modern Age"
[W]e had the year 1848, one of the most singular, disastrous, amazing, and, on the whole, humiliating years the European world ever saw. Not since the irruption of the Northern Barbarians has there been the like. Everywhere immeasurable Democracy rose monstrous, loud, blatant, inarticulate as the voice of Chaos. Everywhere the Official holy-of-holies was scandalously laid bare to dogs and the profane
Quite so. Alas that this benighted age has not its own Thomas Carlyle to declaim such great truths from on high. Not only that, but we neglect even to read the man himself, as though his prophecies did not hold good for our own age! This foolishness must end, as an offense against the Eternal Verities of the Universe. There is only one Sage, and this is he, fittingly reverenced by many in his own time (Charles Dickens for example called him "the man who knows everything", and also said "I would go farther to see Carlyle than any man living". His Hard Times is also inscribed "To Thomas Carlyle"), shamefully neglected in ours - I say shamefully, yet also dangerously, catastrophically, for his lessons are the lessons of the universe, if we could but read it aright. He, taking up where his hero Goethe left off, read the open secret of the universe, and set it down for us - find a wiser than thee, and reverence him, for he is wise, and thou art a blockhead. In this we have the essence of Carlyle, and let us not forget it.
This edition has only the first 5 of the 8 pamphlets that Carlyle issued monthly during 1850. This incompleteness seems to be common to many editions, for reasons I'm unsure of. It's not easy to get all 8. On original publication, the Latter-Day Pamphlets met with some disfavour; his biographer Froude said they caused "universal offence". Yet some there were to hear their message, and Carlyle's reputation survived this offence. To our day, they are still more relevant, for what does our age lack more than Obedience, the first of all virtues? As Carlyle said elsewhere, "[A]ll men, and especially all women, are born worshippers, and will worship, if it be but possible." Consider this well, O foolish Reader, till the meaning of it begins to make itself felt, even to thy poor, faithless head.
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