Thomas Carlyle
historical figure · 3 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Carlyle · Mr. Carlyle
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Writer whose satire is said to have concealed McCulloch's good sense and humanity from later generations.
To a reader of the twentieth century this state of the law seems no less incomprehensible than intolerable, and indeed within twenty-five years after the passing of the Combination Act, appeared utterly indefensible to so rigid an economist as McCulloch, a man whose good sense and genuine humanity have been concealed from a later generation by the heavy and brutal satire of Carlyle.
He was a Carlyle without Carlyle’s rhetorical genius and rough humour, but also without Carlyle’s cynical contempt for humanitarianism.
It is no accident that Carlyle’s Latter Day Pamphlets (1849-1850), filled with denunciations of laissez faire, the Tracts on Christian Socialism (1850), which turned men’s hearts towards the duties of Christians as the members of society, Kingsley’s Alton Locke (1850), which to many contemporaries seemed to preach rank socialism, Mrs.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Author whose idea that the Hero is the source of primitive society is followed by Lyall.
Carlyle in saying that ‘the perplexed jungle of primitive society springs from many roots;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Thomas Carlyle, cited for his description of the informal character of early English parliaments.
The parliaments of that time were, doubtless, such as Carlyle describes them, when he says, “The parliament was at first a most simple assemblage, quite cognate to the situation;