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While I Remember
While I Remember
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"Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toil-worn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a Man living manlike. O, but the more venerable for thy rudeness, and even because we must pity as well as love thee! Hardly-entreated Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed: thou wert our Conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. For in thee too lay a god-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded; encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of Labour: and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on: thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may; thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread.
"A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of Life. Is not he too in his duty; endeavouring towards inward Harmony; revealing this, by act or by word, through all his outward endeavours, be they high or low? Highest of all, when his outward and his inward endeavour are one: when we can name him Artist; not earthly Craftsman only, but inspired Thinker, who with heaven-made Implement conquers Heaven for us! If the poor and humble toil that we have Food, must not the high and glorious toil for him in return, that he have Light, have Guidance, Freedom, Immortality? These two, in all their degrees, I honour: all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth."
Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I Westminster 17
II A Setting and a Date 40
III Christ Church 59
IV London and Elsewhere 80
V The Fringe of Politics 100
VI On the Eve 132
VII The Fringe of War 154
VIII At the Liberal Grave-side 183
IX On the Road to Washington—and After 201
X London Again 226
XI Demobilisation 244
XII Literary Totems 268
XIII Politics in a Dissolving View 290
XIV A Memory Retouched 314
"A second man I honour, and still more highly: Him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of Life. Is not he too in his duty; endeavouring towards inward Harmony; revealing this, by act or by word, through all his outward endeavours, be they high or low? Highest of all, when his outward and his inward endeavour are one: when we can name him Artist; not earthly Craftsman only, but inspired Thinker, who with heaven-made Implement conquers Heaven for us! If the poor and humble toil that we have Food, must not the high and glorious toil for him in return, that he have Light, have Guidance, Freedom, Immortality? These two, in all their degrees, I honour: all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth."
Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I Westminster 17
II A Setting and a Date 40
III Christ Church 59
IV London and Elsewhere 80
V The Fringe of Politics 100
VI On the Eve 132
VII The Fringe of War 154
VIII At the Liberal Grave-side 183
IX On the Road to Washington—and After 201
X London Again 226
XI Demobilisation 244
XII Literary Totems 268
XIII Politics in a Dissolving View 290
XIV A Memory Retouched 314
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