CARLYLE.

Mr. Carlyle's influence, and degree of its durability135

His literary services139

No label useful in characterising him142

The poetic and the scientific temperaments144

Rousseau and Mr. Carlyle147

The poetic method of handling social questions149

Impotent unrest, and his way of treating it152

Founded on the purest individualism154

Mr. Carlyle's historic position in the European reaction157

Coleridge159

Byron161

Mr. Carlyle's victory over Byronism163

Goethe164

Mr. Carlyle's intensely practical turn, though veiled166

His identification of material with moral order169

And acceptance of the doctrine that the end justifies the means170

Two sets of relations still regulated by pathological principle172

Defect in Mr. Carlyle's discussion of them174

His reticences176

Equally hostile to metaphysics and to the extreme pretensions of the physicist177

Natural Supernaturalism, and the measure of its truth179

Two qualities flowing from his peculiar fatalism:—

(1) Contempt for excess of moral nicety182

(2) Defect of sympathy with masses of men186

Perils in his constant sense of the nothingness of life188

Hero-worship, and its inadequateness189

Theories of the dissolution of the old European order193

Mr. Carlyle's view of the French Revolution195

Of the Reformation and Protestantism197

Inability to understand the political point of view199