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"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" is an essay by the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849, [1] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question". [2]
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays is the title of a collection of reprinted reviews and other magazine pieces by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Along with Sartor Resartus and The French Revolution it was one of the books that made his name. Its subject matter ranges from literary criticism (especially of German ...
Statue of Thomas Carlyle in Chelsea Bust of Thomas Carlyle by Mario Raggi circa 1892, displayed at Chelsea Library George Eliot summarised Carlyle's impact in 1855: It is an idle question to ask whether his books will be read a century hence: if they were all burnt as the grandest of Suttees on his funeral pile, it would be only like cutting ...
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Carlyle strongly criticised the mechanisation of the human spirit and indicated the high moral costs of industrial change. In this sermon-like essay, Carlyle led a crusade against scientific materialism, Utilitarianism and the laissez-faire system. He believed that the freedom of the emerging mechanical society in England was a delusion because ...
Thomas Carlyle Looking at the Duke of Buccleuch's Miniatures of Cromwell, his Wife and Daughter by Eyre Crowe, 1895. Carlyle was attracted to Cromwell due to their shared Protestant upbringing and biblical rhetorical style, as well as Cromwell's "sense of the divine vitality of the universe, his hostility to democracy, and his belief that heroes can be the agents of God's will."