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https://youtu.be/74V6lHh97yo

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>Carlyle believed that life was hierarchical, but that hierarchy had to be based upon the principle of justice.

>[It is commonly held that historians] should be neutral. Carlyle is never neutral! Carlyle speaks with radical Protestant and even re-Aryanized Old Testament fury! Carlyle is always right. And he was an ideologue and in some ways a literary demagogue, and the Victorians were dying for it. Because internally, under all their progress and all their science and all their industrialism and their vouchsafed Christianity, they were uncertain.

>One of Carlyle’s great strengths is his belief that language is a new thing. You don’t necessarily go against the order of grammar. But a genius reinvents in the crucible of creation. He developed more words, more neologisms than almost anyone in his time.

>He believed that the modern world would become atomized, would become spiritless, would become falsely individualist, would become completely material, and would lose its connection with what he perceived of as the divine.

>> No.19257111

>>19257066
I can't watch this speech because Bowden gets a piece of food stuck on his lip and no on tells him the whole time.

>> No.19257137

>>19257111
It is not food but saliva. In any event it disappears before he's done.

>> No.19257139

Any place I can get transcriptions of all or most of his speeches? I want to get into him but I am autistic and the yelling upsets me.

>> No.19257176

>>19257139
>and the yelling upsets me.
But the yelling is the point.

>> No.19257183

>>19257139
https://counter-currents.com/2014/11/thomas-carlyle-the-sage-of-chelsea-2/
Here is a transcript of the Carlyle lecture. Counter-Currents may publish Bowden's lectures in print form.

>> No.19257187

>>19257137
It's really sticking there, I think it's bread.

One of the best parts of the speech was when he mentions Carlyle's 'dialectic of silence' also.

>> No.19257204

>>19257187
Indeed. Deliberation in speech and thought is a lost art.

>> No.19257230
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19257230

Sullivan's drawings for Sartor Resartus are kino.

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>>19257230

>> No.19257239

>>19257230
Is that where that picture is from? Now I really have to read it.

>> No.19257265

>>19257239
it's a real hoot, all the way up to the point where it is no longer a hoot.

>> No.19257272

>>19257265
Which is (inb4 book 3)?

>> No.19257312

>>19257272
the immortal nay and yea bits, the story of the old man, i don't know that i liked any of the book besides some small chuckles here and there.
probably would have helped to have the requisite education

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>>19257312
>he disliked the best part of the book

>> No.19257324

>>19257320
why were those the best? mind explaining?

>> No.19257387

>>19257324
The whole second book easily has the best prose of the novel and is most important to Carlyle's philosophy.

>> No.19257419

>>19257387
i found his prose too chunky. like a drunken slurring german melville, he needed a muzzle, and aught else this carlyle, if you ask me. no, lacks the grace of even semi-contemporaries. probably good he never *really* broke through. have you seen the film confessions of a dangerous mind? that's what too much carlyle will get ya. my favorite i keep close to my chest, he's the anti-sterner, but his prose is very ugly, but ornate, but hideous. anyway, carlyle needed to be beaten with a stick.