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, 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, INDEX Boswell, James-continued. contemplation of himself, "luxury of noble sentiment," drink, 177, 196, 197, 199, 200. friendship with Johnson, 183, views on religion, 176, 183, 201, 203, 204. Corsica, 189-195. friendship with Paoli, 190-194. fidelity to fact, 205, 209. Bristol, 87-88, 104-106, 272, 284. Britomart, 24, 27. Browne, Sir Richard, 84-85, Browne, Sir Thomas, 74, 82, Browning, Robert, 68, 307. birth, 115. education, 107, 140. appearance, 142. the books he read, 115, 133. story of his conversion, 117- consciousness of Christian minister in Bedford, 106-107. second wife and children, 110. the plain style, 117. his enjoyment in writing, 124- his humour, 125-126, 134. nobility of his theme, 127- preconceptions, 130. character - drawing, 130-134, Bunyan, John-continued. his verses, 112, 113, 136, 140, 141. his books- Grace Abounding, 114, 117- 124. Pilgrim's Progress, Part I., 241. Byron, Lord, 232, 283, 284. CAMBRIDGE, 80, 99. Cowper's brother, 145, 147. Wordsworth, 250-253.. studies and interests in 16th in 17th century, 38-41. Carlyle, Jane W., 288, his parents, 280-282, 291. 306- upbringing, 281, 286, 291, Carlyle, Thomas-continued. 296-298, 301. on how to criticize, 280, 289. on musical thought, 292-293. on heroes, 302-305, 311, 313. French Revolution, 308-309. his great vogue, 279. his work and its effects, 311- Cottle, Joseph, 272, 296. the Cowper family, 144, 145. insanity, 122, 145, 172. feeling for poverty, 162-163. friendships, 147, 148, 150, 155, 157, 167, 169. his dress, 170-171. diet, 169-170. removal to Weston Under- translates Homer, 172. his letters, 146, 160-161, 173- Wordsworth on them, 161. ease of his metre, 146. 153, 159, 160. Cowper, W.-continued. Cowper and Johnson, "his parents, 214, 215. early surroundings, 212, 214, education, 215. goes to London, 221. relations with Dr Johnson, on marriage, 229. smith, 223-227, 233-235. Ellwood, Thomas, 72, 105, 106, III. Emerson, R. W., 285. in 16th century, 9-12. in 20th century, 312. Evelyn, John- his parents, 77, 79, 81. education, 79. begins to keep a diary, 79 false quantity, 81. foreign travels, 81-85. marriage, 84-86. 81, 93-94, 102. the Royal Society, 75, 100. his death, 102. his writings, 76, 86, 88, 89, 90, 94, 100-102. on comets, 74. |