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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1879. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... from Novalis: "There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the Body of Man; nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body." "This sounds," says Carlyle, "much like a mere flourish of rhetoric, but it is not so. If well meditated, it will turn out to be a scientific fact; the expression in such words as can be had of the actual truth of the thing. We are the miracle of miracles --the great, inscrutible mystery of God. We cannot understand it; we know not how to speak of it, but we may feel and know, if we like, that it is verily so." But, alas! Carlyle has to tell us that there is a devil dwelling in man as well as a divinity, and that one of the greatest allies of the Prince of Darkness is ignorance. Venerable to him is the hard hand, the rugged face all weathertanned, beaming with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a man living man-like. "But how often," he says, "while the body stands so broad and brawny the soul lies blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated, for the want of knowledge." So that the man is too often but like a patent digester of so much animal and vegetable food; whose thoughts never soar higher than a hot dinner on Sundays, or a pipe and pot in the tap-room at night. One could verily weep at such pictures of stagnant power, undeveloped excellence, imbruted virtue, and stifled genius. "That one man should die ignorant, who had capacity for knowledge," this he calls, "a tragedy; but what," he adds, "if it were to happen more than twenty times in the minute, as by some computations it does." In Carlyle's wit and humour there are many peculiar characteristics. His wit is of a heavy, thumping kind, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150062995
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150062991
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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