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Anons Carlyle-pilled, do you prefer Sartor Resartus or the French Revolution?

A short time before his death in 1881, Thomas Carlyle made the following sudden outburst about Darwinism:

> "The so-called literary and scientific classes in England now proudly give themselves to protoplasm, origin of species and the like, to prove that God did not build the universe. I have known three generations of the Darwins - grandfather, father, and son, atheists all. The brother of the present famous naturalist, a quiet man, who lives not far from here, told me that among his grand-father's effects he found a seal engraven with this legend: Omnia ex conchis (everything from a cockle shell)! I saw the naturalist not many months ago; told him that I had read his Origin of Species and other books; that he had by no means satisfied me that men were descended from monkeys, but had gone far towards persuading me that he and his so-called scientific brethren had brought the present generation of Englishmen very near to monkeys. A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well-meaning, but with very little intellect. Ah! It is a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women professing to be cultivated, looking around in a purblind fashion, and finding no God in this universe! I suppose it is a reaction from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, professing to believe what in fact they do not believe. And this is what we have got. All things from frog-spawn; the gospel of dirt the order of the day. The older I grow - and now I stand upon the brink of eternity - the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: ' What is the great end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.' No gospel of dirt, teaching that men have descended from frogs through monkeys can ever set that aside."

>>21210654
Thomas Carlyle also had an outburst. Although unlike James Clerk Maxwell he was not religious, but he liked religion as he was raised by a religious Calvinist family and didn’t take well to the idea that religion might decline even more now with the help of Darwinism. A short time before his death in 1881, Thomas Carlyle made the following sudden outburst about Darwinism:

> "The so-called literary and scientific classes in England now proudly give themselves to protoplasm, origin of species and the like, to prove that God did not build the universe. I have known three generations of the Darwins - grandfather, father, and son, atheists all. The brother of the present famous naturalist, a quiet man, who lives not far from here, told me that among his grand-father's effects he found a seal engraven with this legend: Omnia ex conchis (everything from a cockle shell)! I saw the naturalist not many months ago; told him that I had read his Origin of Species and other books; that he had by no means satisfied me that men were descended from monkeys, but had gone far towards persuading me that he and his so-called scientific brethren had brought the present generation of Englishmen very near to monkeys. A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well-meaning, but with very little intellect. Ah! It is a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women professing to be cultivated, looking around in a purblind fashion, and finding no God in this universe! I suppose it is a reaction from the reign of cant and hollow pretence, professing to believe what in fact they do not believe. And this is what we have got. All things from frog-spawn; the gospel of dirt the order of the day. The older I grow - and now I stand upon the brink of eternity - the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: ' What is the great end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him for ever.' No gospel of dirt, teaching that men have descended from frogs through monkeys can ever set that aside."

>want to read Carlyle
>acquire complete works epub
>it's 27900+ pages long
>mfw

So, what's this guy all about?

Have you read Carlyle? Where should one start? Latter day pamphlets?

Why did he like the Puritans so much?

>>19746638
i never said it was utopia but this everything i don't like is feudalism is retardation of the highest order from people that know nothing about feudalism it is clearly better in some aspects than the modern world

a nice completed works of Thomas Carlyle

Why is it almost impossible to find a new-ish print edition of his work? Was he not one of the most influencial writers in the 19th century? How is it than there are more editions of Nietzsche, a German writer, translated into English than there of are of this man who could be said to be the English Nietzsche?

Is Nietzsche a shitty (((German))) knock off of Carlyle?

Are there any /lit/ charts for Thomas Carlyle? Which of his works should I start with?

>>18004231
Plato, ever heard of him?
Dumb shit that hasn't heard of blood vessel health in brain an relation to IQ and microinfarctions, BDNF, VEGF and neurogenesis

if you don't workout for at least 2.5 hours a week or so you should kys

>>17553763

>publishes the n-word

>>17307217
>>17307240
Nothin' wrong with worshipping heroes, mate.

t. Prot bong

>>17290754
No, Carlyle was the first existentialist.

Precedes many ideas, forms and feelings of both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche quite closely.

>To our less philosophical readers, for example, it is now clear that the so passionate Teufelsdrockh precipitated through "a shivered Universe" in this extraordinary way, has only one of three things which he can next do: Establish himself in Bedlam; begin writing Satanic Poetry; or blow out his brains.

>>16628347
Catholic Protestantism is the only way.

If you disagree you're a retard.

De Maistre if he was a Protestant.

>>16592350
Reminder that that's not actually a depiction of Knox as Carlyle proved.

>Creates Existentialism
Why doesn't Carlyle get more credit?

>>16489696
Evidently.