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of which is the historical fact of the Person of Jesus. . . . The second objective ground is that we hear within ourselves the demand of the moral law."1 These are the words of Wilhelm Herrmann, of Marburg. Are the thoughts not familiar to the reader of Carlyle in every variety of emphatic language?

But the man is more than his words, more than any thought that he can put into words. With all his mistakes in history and criticism (and they are not as many as might be supposed from the tone of certain writers)-with all his mistakes in life and character, he remains a great and helpful Man in virtue of his open eye and heart, his sincerity, his conviction of "the divine and awful nature of God's truth". {"_

Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren,
Resolut zu leben.2

1 Herrmann, Communion with God (tr. 2nd ed. p. 103.)

* It is perhaps significant that Carlyle at least twice misquotes this passage as above. In Goethe's Generalbeichte, the passage runs :

Uns vom Halben zu entwöhnen,

Und im Ganzen, Guten, Schönen,
Resolut zu leben.

INDEX

Boswell, James-continued.
wishes to enter army, 177
his Greek and Latin, 177, 195.
his interest in literature, 177,
179.

contemplation of himself,
191, 196, 209.
"naturally somewhat singu-
lar," 197.

"luxury of noble sentiment,"
192.

drink, 177, 196, 197, 199, 200.
introduction to Johnson, 175,
179, 180-182

friendship with Johnson, 183,
184.

views on religion, 176, 183,

201, 203, 204.
on morals, 189-190, 197.
"encore the cow," 187.
in Holland, 188.

Corsica, 189-195.

friendship with Paoli, 190-194.
journey to Hebrides, 188,

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fidelity to fact, 205, 209.
his verses, 177, 185.
his letters, 196, 204, 207.
Bourne, Vincent, 146.
Brandes, G., 285.

Bristol, 87-88, 104-106, 272, 284.

Britomart, 24, 27.
Broadmead Records, 104, 106,
109.

Browne, Sir Richard, 84-85,
95.

Browne, Sir Thomas, 74, 82,
100, 118.

Browning, Robert, 68, 307.
Bull, William, 155, 167-169.
Bunyan, John-

birth, 115.

education, 107, 140.
temperament, 122-124, 128-
129.

appearance, 142.

the books he read, 115, 133.
soldiering, 118.

story of his conversion, 117-
124, 128.

consciousness of Christian
past, 115.

minister in Bedford, 106-107.
first imprisonments, 107-114.
last imprisonment, 114, 124.
first wife, 115, 118.

second wife and children, 110.
his sound sense, 124.
value of his books, 114-115.
the happiness in them, 116-
117.

the plain style, 117.
written out of his experience,
117, 128-129, 133, 134.
mastery of language, 117.
imagination, 123, 137.

his enjoyment in writing, 124-
125

his humour, 125-126, 134.
originality, 126.

nobility of his theme, 127-
128.

preconceptions, 130.

character - drawing, 130-134,

Bunyan, John-continued.
gift of narrative. 135.
dialogue, 134, 139.
effect of his books, 142.
their popularity, 142.

his verses, 112, 113, 136, 140,

141.

his books-

Grace Abounding, 114, 117-

124.

Pilgrim's Progress, Part I.,
114-116, 124-135.
Holy War, 135-137.
Pilgrim's Progress, Part II.,
138.
Burke, Edmund, 187, 211.
Burleigh, Lord, 8.
Burnet, Gilbert, 87.
Burns, Robert, 208, 235-239,

241.
Burton, 14, 78.

Byron, Lord, 232, 283, 284.

CAMBRIDGE, 80, 99.
Spenser, 5.
Milton, 38-41.
Evelyn, 88.

Cowper's brother, 145, 147.
Gray, 177, 225.

Wordsworth, 250-253..

studies and interests in 16th
century, 6.

in 17th century, 38-41.
in 18th century, 250-252.
Camden, 40.

Carlyle, Jane W., 288,
307.
Carlyle, Thomas—

his parents, 280-282, 291.
birth, 280.

306-

upbringing, 281, 286, 291,

Carlyle, Thomas-continued.
instinct for reality, 292-293,

296-298, 301.
religion, 295-302, 313-314.
principles in writing, 305-306.
his style, 307-309.
character-drawing, 288, 310.
on order, 287.
on belief, 286.

on how to criticize, 280, 289.
on humour, 290.

on musical thought, 292-293.
on history, 293, 306.
on hunger, 294.

on heroes, 302-305, 311, 313.
his writings-

French Revolution, 308-309.
Cromwell, 310.
Frederick, 311.

his great vogue, 279.

his work and its effects, 311-

Cottle, Joseph, 272, 296.
Cowley, Abraham, 76, 89, 91,
100, 102, 103.
Cowper, William-

the Cowper family, 144, 145.
Whig tradition, 144, 146.
classical training, 146.
nine years at the Bar, 144.
the House of Lords affair,
144-145.

insanity, 122, 145, 172.
Christian conviction, 145.
humour, 144, 146, 154-155.
at Huntingdon, 147.
lives with the Unwins, 149.
life at Olney, 149-150, 161-
165, 169-170.
gardening, 152.
his hares, 152-153.
feeling for Nature, 158-160.
politics, 164-167.

feeling for poverty, 162-163.
Sunday School, 163.

friendships, 147, 148, 150,

155, 157, 167, 169.

his dress, 170-171.

diet, 169-170.

removal to Weston Under-
wood, 171.

translates Homer, 172.
portraits, 171.

his letters, 146, 160-161, 173-
174.

Wordsworth on them, 161.
"talking letters," 160.
his poetry-

ease of his metre, 146.
Olney Hymns, 151.
Progress of Error, 153.
his first volume, 153-156.
John Gilpin, 158.
The Task, 158-160.
likeness to Wordsworth,

153, 159, 160.
The Castaway, 173.
Cowper and Milton, 62,

Cowper, W.-continued.

Cowper and Johnson, "his
old jacket," 62.
Cowper and Bunyan, 122.
Crabbe, George—

parents, 214, 215.
birth, 214.

early surroundings, 212, 214,
218

education, 215.

goes to London, 221.
relations with Burke, 211-214.
his wife, 215, 221-222.
his sons, 216, 228.
interest in botany, 220
ordination, 221.
a Whig, 221.

relations with Dr Johnson,
222-223.

on marriage, 229.
"poet of disillusion," 232.
not "stern," 232-233.
criticism of Gray and Gold-

smith, 223-227, 233-235.
his poems, 212, 213.
Inebriety, 219-220.
The Village, 222-228.
The Newspaper, 228.
The Parish Register, 228,

Ellwood, Thomas, 72, 105, 106,

III.

Emerson, R. W., 285.
England-

in 16th century, 9-12.
in 17th century, 37-40, 74,
77-79, 97, 105.
in 18th century, 161-166,
167, 169, 216-218, 221,
223-228, 230-232, 259-260.
in 19th century, 282-286,
294-295.

in 20th century, 312.
Eros and Anteros, 53-54.
Erskine, Hon. Andrew, 178.
Euphues, 16.

Evelyn, John-

his parents, 77, 79, 81.
birth, 77.

education, 79.

begins to keep a diary, 79
his miscellaneous learning,
79-80.

false quantity, 81.

foreign travels, 81-85.
on Popish relics, 84.
arts, 84.

marriage, 84-86.
his character, 75.
typically English, 75.
settles at Sayes Court, 87.
travels in England, 87-88.
Church of England, 77, 79,

81, 93-94, 102.
little interest in liberty, 81.
relations with the Kings, 82,
85, 87, 91, 94, 97
tendency to moralize, 75, 81,
91, 92, 96, 98.

the Royal Society, 75, 100.
friendship with Pepys, 98-99.
garden 90.

his death, 102.

his writings, 76, 86, 88, 89,

90, 94, 100-102.

on comets, 74.

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