# Sartor Resartus and On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (Macmillan)/Index

INDEX
SARTOR RESARTUS
Action the true end of Man, 133
Actual, the, the true Ideal, 165
Adamitism, 49
Afflictions, merciful, 162
Ambition, 89
Apprenticeships, 103
Aprons, use and significance of, 36
Art, all true Works of, symbolic, 190
Baphometic Fire-baptism, 143, 145
Battle-field, a, 147
Battle, Life-, our, 74; with Folly and Sin, 106
Being, the boundless Phantasmagoria of, 45
Belief and Opinion, 163, 164
Bible of Universal History, 150, 163
Biography, meaning and uses of, 64; significance of biographic facts, 170
Blumine, 118; her environment, 119; character and relation to Teufelsdröckh, 122; blissful bonds rent asunder, 124; on her way to England, 130
Bolivar's Cavalry-uniform, 42
Books, influence of, 146, 168
Childhood, happy season of, 77; early influences and sports, 79
Christian Faith, a good Mother's simple version of the, 85; Temple of the, now in ruins, 162; Passive-half of, 164
Christian Love, 159, 162
Church-Clothes, 181; living and dead Churches, 183; the modern Church, and its Newspaper-Pulpits, 214
Circumstances, influence of, 80
Clergy, the, with their surplices and cassock-aprons girt-on, 37, 177
Clothes, not a spontaneous growth of the human animal, but an artificial device, 4; analogy between the Costumes of the body and the Customs of the spirit, 30; Decoration the first purpose of Clothes, 32; what Clothes have done for us, and what they threaten to do, 34; fantastic garbs of the Middle Ages, 39; a simple costume, 42; tangible and mystic influences of Clothes, 43, 49; animal and human Clothing contrasted, 48; a Court-Ceremonial minus Clothes, 51; necessity for Clothes, 52; transparent Clothes, 57; all Emblematic things are Clothes, 62, 229; Genesis of the modern Clothes-Philosopher, 69; Character and conditions needed, 178; George Fox's suit of Leather, 179; Church-Clothes, 182; Old-Clothes, 202; practical inferences, 230
Codification, 57
Combination, value of, 113, 250
Commons, British House of, 35
Concealment. See Secrecy
Constitution, our invaluable British, 211
Conversion, 167
Courtesy, due to all men, 202
Courtier, a luckless, 42
Custom the greatest of Weavers, 219
Dandy, mystic significance of the, 231; dandy worship, 233; sacred books, 234; articles of faith, 236; a dandy household, 240; tragically undermined by growing Drudgery, 241
Death, nourishment even in, 91
Devil, internecine war with the, 12, 101, 156; cannot now so much as believe in him, 141
Dilettantes and Pedants, 59; patrons of Literature, 107
Diogenes, 178
​Doubt can only be removed by Action, 164. See Unbelief
Drudgery contrasted with Dandyism, 237; 'Communion of Drudges,' and what may come of it, 241
Duelling, a picture of, 149
Duty, no longer a divine Messenger and Guide, but a false earthly Fantasm, 138; infinite nature of, 164
Editor's first acquaintance with Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes, 6; efforts to make known his discovery to British readers, 8; admitted into the Teufelsdröckh watch-tower, 17; first feels the pressure of his task, 43; his bulky Weissnichtwo Packet, 63; strenuous efforts to evolve some historic order out of such interminable documentary confusion, 66; partial success, 75; mysterious hints, 170; astonishment and hesitation, 211; farewell, 244
Education, influence of early, 80; insignificant portion depending on Schools, 87; educational Architects, 91; the inspired Thinker, 193
Emblems, all visible things, 62
Emigration, 195
Eternity, looking through Time, 18, 63
Evil, Origin of, 160
Eyes and Spectacles, 58
Facts, engraved Hierograms, for which the fewest have the key, 171
Faith, the one thing needful, 137
Fantasy, the true Heaven-gate or Hell-gate of man, 122, 187
Fashionable Novels, 235
Fatherhood, 73
Feebleness, the true misery, 139
Fire, and vital fire, 61, 145
Force, universal presence of, 61
Fortunatus' Wishing-hat, 221, 223
Fox's, George, heavenward aspirations and earthly independence, 176
Fraser's Magazine, 9
Frederick the Great, symbolic glimpse of, 69
Friendship, now obsolete, 100; an incredible tradition, 140, 197; how it were possible, 250
Futteral and his Wife, 69
Future, organic filaments of the, 207
Genius, the world's treatment of, 105
German speculative Thought, 4, 25; historical researches, 32
Gerund-grinding, 90
Ghost, an authentic, 224
God, the unslumbering, omnipresent, eternal, 45; God's presence manifested to our eyes and hearts, 56; an absentee God, 137
Goethe's inspired melody, 214
Good, growth and propagation of, 85
Great Men, 150. See Man
Gullibility, blessings of, 96
Gunpowder, use of, 34, 152
Habit, how, makes dullards of us all, 48
Half-men, 156
Happiness, the whim of, 161
Hero-worship, the corner-stone of all Society, 213
Heuschrecke and his biographic documents, 10; his loose, zigzag, thin-visaged character, 22; unaccustomed eloquence, and interminable documentary superfluities, 66; bewildered darkness, 250
History, all-inweaving tissue of, 19; by what strange chances do we live in, 42; a perpetual Revelation, 150, 215
Homer's Iliad, 190
Hope, this world emphatically the place of, 137; false shadows of, 157
Horse, his own tailor, 47
Ideal, the, exists only in the Actual, 165
Imagination. See Fantasy
Immortality, a glimpse of, 222
Imposture, statistics of, 95
Independence, foolish parade of, 197
Indifference, centre of, 144
Infant intuitions and acquirements, 74; genius and dulness, 80
Inspiration, perennial, 163
Invention, 134
Invisible, the, Nature the visible Garment of, 46; invisible bonds, binding all Men together, 51; the Visible and Invisible, 56, 185
Irish, the Poor-Slave, 237
Isolation, 92
Jesus of Nazareth, our divinest Symbol, 190
King, our true, chosen for us in Heaven, 211
Kingdom, a man's, 102
Know thyself, and what thou canst work at, 140
Labour, sacredness of, 193
Land-owning, trade of, 107
Language, the Garment of Thought, 62; dead vocables, 90
Laughter, significance of, 29
​Lieschen, 21
Life, Human, picture of, 18, 128, 145, 158; life-purpose, 113; speculative mystery of, 140, 203, 225; the most important transaction in, 143; nothingness of, 154
Light the beginning of all Creation, 165
Logic-mortar and wordy Air-Castles, 45; underground workshop of Logic, 57
Louis XV., ungodly age of, 138
Love, what we emphatically name, 114; pyrotechnic phenomena of, 115; not altogether a delirium, 121; how possible, in its highest form, 182, 250
Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the, 41
Magna Charta, 229
Malthus's over-population panic, 192
Man, by nature naked, 4, 48, 52; essentially a tool-using animal, 34; the true Shekinah, 56; a divine Emblem, 62, 224; two men alone honourable, 193. See Thinking Man
Metaphors the stuff of Language, 62
Metaphysics inexpressibly unproductive, 45
Milton, 139
Miracles, significance of, 217, 220
Monmouth Street, and its 'Ou' clo'' Angels of Doom, 205
Mother's, a, religious influence, 84
Motive-Millwrights, 187
Mountain scenery, 129
Mystery, all-pervading domain of, 58
Nakedness and hypocritical Clothing, 51; a naked Court-Ceremonial, 51; a naked Duke addressing a naked House of Lords, 52
Names, significance and influence of, 74, 220
Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 151
Nature, the God-written Apocalypse of, 44; not an Aggregate but a Whole, 60, 218; Nature alone antique, 88; sympathy with, 129, 152; the 'Living Garment of God,' 159; Laws of Nature, 217
Necessity, brightened into Duty, 83
Newspaper Editors, 38; our Mendicant Friars, 214
Nothingness of life, 154
Obedience, the lesson of, 84, 211
Orpheus, 223
Over-population, 192
Own, conservation of a man's, 169
Paradise and Fig-leaves, 31; prospective, Paradises, 114, 122
Passivity and Activity, 84, 136
Past, the, inextricably linked with the Present, 145; forever extant, 221
Paupers, what to do with, 194
Peace-Era, the much-predicted, 148
Peasant Saint, the, 194
Pelham, and the Whole Duty of Dandies, 236
Perseverance, law of, 200
Person, mystery of a, 57, 110, 203
Philosophies, Cause-and-Effect, 30
Phœnix Death-birth, 200, 207, 228
Property, 169
Proselytising, 8, 250
Radicalism, Speculative, 13, 25, 54
Raleigh's, Sir Walter, fine mantle, 41
Religion, dead letter and living spirit of, 98; weaving new vestures, 183
Reverence, early growth of, 85; indispensability of, 212
Richter, 28
Saints, living Communion of, 209, 214
Sarcasm, the panoply of, 110
Sartor Resartus, genesis of, 8; its purpose, 227
Saturn or Chronos, 109
Savage, the aboriginal, 33
Scarecrow, significance of the, 53
Sceptical goose-cackle, 58
School education, insignificance of, 90; tin-kettle terrors and incitements, 89; need of Soul-Architects, 91
Science, the Torch of, 3; the Scientific Head, 57
Secrecy, benignant efficacies of, 185
Self-activity, 24
Self-annihilation, 157
Shame, divine, mysterious growth of, 34; the soil of all Virtue, 186
Silence, 152; the element in which all great things fashion themselves, 186
Simon's, Saint, aphorism of the golden age, 200; a false application, 252
Smoke, advantage of consuming one's, 127
Society founded upon Cloth, 43, 51, 55; how Society becomes possible, 182; Social Death and New-Birth, 183, 200, 228; as good as extinct, 195
Solitude. See Silence
Sorrow-pangs of Self-deliverance, 134; divine depths of Sorrow, 160; Worship of Sorrow, 162
Space and Time, the Dream-Canvas upon which Life is imaged, 46, 216, 221
Spartan wisdom, 194
Speculative intuition, 44. See German
Speech, great, but not greatest, 186
​Sphinx-riddle, the Universe a, 108
Stealing, 169, 194
Stupidity, blessings of, 138
Style, varieties of, 62
Suicide, 141
Summary, 252
Sunset, 79, 130
Swallows, migrations and co-operative instincts of, 82
Swineherd, the, 80
Symbols, 185; wondrous agency of, 186; extrinsic and intrinsic, 189; superannuated, 191
Tailors, symbolic significance of, 244
Temptations in the wilderness, 155
Teufelsdröckh's Philosophy of Clothes, 6; he proposes a toast, 14; his personal aspect, and silent deepseated Sansculottism, 15; thawed into speech, 17; memorable watch-tower utterances, 23; alone with the Stars, 19; extremely miscellaneous environment, 19; plainness of speech, 26; universal learning, and multiplex literary style, 31; one instance of laughter, 28; almost total want of arrangement, 29; feeling of the ludicrous, 41; speculative Radicalism, 54; a singular Character, 63; Genesis properly an Exodus, 69; unprecedented Name, 73; infantine experience, 77; Pedagogy, 86; an almost Hindoo Passivity, 86; school-boy jostling, 89; heterogeneous University-Life, 92; fever-paroxysms of Doubt, 96; first practical knowledge of the English, 99; getting under way, 101; ill-success, 105; glimpse of high-life, 107; casts himself on the Universe, 113; reverent feeling towards Women, 114; frantically in love, 117; first interview with Blumine, 118; inspired moments, 119; short of practical kitchen-stuff, 123; ideal bliss, and actual catastrophe, 124; sorrows, and peripatetic stoicism, 126; a parting glimpse of his Beloved on her way to England, 130; how he overran the whole earth, 131; Doubt darkened into Unbelief, 134; love of Truth, 139; a feeble unit, amidst a threatening Infinitude, 140; Baphometic Fire-baptism, 143; placid indifference, 144; a Hyperborean intruder, 152; Nothingness of life, 154; Temptations in the wilderness, 155; dawning of a better day, 158; the Ideal in the Actual, 165; finds his true Calling, 168; his Biography a symbolic Adumbration, significant to those who can decipher it, 170; a wonder-lover, seeker and worker, 175; in Monmouth Street among the Hebrews, 205; concluding hints, 248; his public History not yet done, perhaps the better part only beginning, 252
Thinking Man, a, the worst enemy of the Prince of Darkness, 102; true Thought can never die, 209
Time-Spirit, life-battle with the, 74, 109; Time, the universal wonder-hider, 223
Titles of Honour, 210
Tools, influence of, 34; the Pen, most miraculous of tools, 168
Unbelief, era of, 96, 139; Doubt darkening into, 137; escape from, 156
Universities, 94
Utilitarianism, 198
View-hunting and diseased Self-consciousness, 130
Voltaire, 163; the Parisian Divinity, 213
War, 148
Wisdom, 57
Woman's influence, 115
Wonder the basis of Worship, 57; region of, 229
Words, slavery to, 46; Word-mongering and Motive-grinding, 138
Workshop of Life, 167. See Labour
Young Men and Maidens, 108, 115
HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP
Agincourt, Shakspeare's battle of, 364
Ali, young, Mahomet's kinsman and convert, 313
Allegory, the sportful shadow of earnest faith, 261, 286
Ambition, foolish charge of, 475; laudable ambition, 478
Arabia and the Arabs, 302
Balder, the white Sungod, 274, 290
Belief, the true god-announcing miracle, 312, 331, 399, 427; war of, 457. See Religion, Scepticism
Benthamism, 330, 426
Books, miraculous influence of, 413, 418; our modern University, Church and Parliament, 416 ​Boswell, 437
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 262
Burns, 441; his birth, and humble heroic parents, 442; rustic dialect, 442; the most gifted British soul of his century, 443; resemblance to Mirabeau, 444; his sincerity, 445; his visit to Edinburgh, Lion-hunted to death, 448
Caabah, the, with its Black Stone and Sacred Well, 304
Canopus, worship of, 265
Charles I. fatally incapable of being dealt with, 467
China, literary governors of, 422
Church. See Books
Cromwell, 461; his hypochondria, 465, 470; early marriage and conversion; a quiet farmer, 465; his Ironsides, 468; his Speeches, 472, 486; his 'ambition,' and the like, 474; dismisses the Rump Parliament, 482; Protectorship and Parliamentary Futilities, 486; his last days, and closing sorrows, 488
Dante, 340; biography in his Book and Portrait, 340; his birth, education and early career, 341; love for Beatrice, unhappy marriage, banishment, 342; uncourtier-like ways, 343; death, 345; his Divina Commedia genuinely a song, 345; the Unseen World, as figured in the Christianity of the Middle Ages, 351; 'uses' of Dante, 354
David, the Hebrew King, 301
Divine Right of Kings, 451
Duty, 286, 318; infinite nature of, 330; sceptical spiritual paralysis, 425
Edda, the Scandinavian, 272
Eighteenth Century, the sceptical, 424-429, 461
Elizabethan Era, 356
Faults, his, not the criterion of any man, 301
Fichte's theory of literary men, 410
Fire, miraculous nature of, 273
Forms, necessity for, 458
Frost. See Fire
Goethe's 'characters,' 359; notablest of literary men, 411
Graphic, secret of being, 347
Gray's misconception of Norse lore, 290
Hampden, 460
Heroes, Universal History the united biographies of, 257, 285; how 'little critics' account for great men, 268; all Heroes fundamentally of the same stuff, 283, 333, 370, 408; Heroism possible to all, 382, 399; Intellect the primary outfit, 360; no man a hero to a valet-soul, 437, 461, 469
Hero-worship the tap-root of all Religion, 267; perennial in man, 270, 456
Hutchinson and Cromwell, 460, 489
Iceland, the home of Norse Poets, 272
Idolatry, 375; criminal only when insincere, 377
Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, 276, 356
Intellect, the summary of man's gifts, 360
Islam, 311
Job, the Book of, 304
Johnson's difficulties, poverty, hypochondria, 432; rude self-help; stands genuinely by the old formulas, 433; his noble unconscious sincerity, 434; twofold Gospel, of Prudence and hatred of Cant, 435; his Dictionary, 436; the brave old Samuel, 437
Jotuns, 273, 291
Kadijah, the good, Mahomet's first Wife, 308, 310
King, the, a summary of all the various figures of Heroism, 449; indispensable in all movements of men, 481
Knox's influence on Scotland, 399; the bravest of Scotchmen, 401; his unassuming career; is sent to the French Galleys, 404; his colloquies with Queen Mary, 404; vein of drollery; a brother to high and to low; his death, 406
Koran, the, 319
Lamaism, Grand, 261
Leo X., the elegant Pagan Pope, 386
Liberty and Equality, 381, 455
Literary Men, 410; in China, 423
Literature, chaotic condition of, 412; not our heaviest evil, 424
Luther's birth and parentage, 382; hardship and rigorous necessity; death of Alexis; becomes monk, 383; his religious despair; finds a Bible; deliverance from darkness, 385; Rome, 385; Tetzel, 386; burns the Pope's Bull, 388; at the Diet of Worms, 389; King of the Reformation, 392; 'Duke Georges nine days running,' 394; his little daughter's deathbed; his solitary Patmos, 395; his Portrait, 396
Mahomet's birth, boyhood, and youth, 306; marries Kadijah, 308; quiet, ​unambitious life, 308; divine commission, 310; the good Kadijah believes him; Seid; young Ali, 313; offences, and sore struggles, 314; flight from Mecca; being driven to take the sword, he uses it, 315; the Koran, 319; a veritable Hero, 326; Seid's death, 326; freedom from Cant, 328; the infinite nature of Duty, 330
Mary, Queen, and Knox, 404
Mayflower, sailing of the, 398
Mecca, 314
Middle Ages, represented by Dante and Shakspeare, 352, 355
Montrose, the Hero-Cavalier, 482
Musical, all deep things, 338
Napoleon, a portentous mixture of Quack and Hero, 490; his instinct for the practical, 491; his democratic faith, and heart-hatred for anarchy, 492; apostatised from his old faith in Facts, and took to believing in Semblances, 493; this Napoleonism was unjust, and could not last, 494
Nature, all one great Miracle, 264, 323, 396; a righteous umpire, 316
Novalis, on Man, 266; Belief, 312; Shakspeare, 362
Odin, the first Norse 'man of genius,' 277; historic rumours and guesses, 279; how he came to be deified, 280; invented 'runes,' 283; Hero, Prophet, God, 284
Olaf, King, and Thor, 295
Original man the sincere man, 300, 380
Paganism, Scandinavian, 259; not mere Allegory, 261; Nature-worship, 263, 286; Hero-worship, 267; creed of our fathers, 271, 291; Impersonation of the visible workings of Nature, 273; contrasted with Greek Paganism, 275; the first Norse Thinker, 277; main practical Belief; indispensable to be brave, 288; hearty, homely, rugged Mythology; Balder, Thor, 290; Consecration of Valour, 296
Parliaments superseded by books, 418; Cromwell's Parliaments, 483
Past, the whole, the possession of the present, 296
Poet, the, and Prophet, 335, 365
Poetry and Prose, distinction of, 337, 345
Popery, 391
Priest, the true, a kind of Prophet, 370
Printing, consequences of, 418
Private judgment, 379
Progress of the Species, 373
Prose. See Poetry
Protestantism, the root of Modern European History, 378; not dead yet, 391; its living fruit, 453
Purgatory, noble Catholic conception of, 350
Puritanism, founded by Knox, 397; true beginning of America, 398; the one epoch of Scotland, 399; Theocracy, 407; Puritanism in England, 457, 460
Quackery originates nothing, 260, 299; age of, 428; Quacks and Dupes, 469
Ragnarök, 294
Reformer, the true, 371
Religion, a man's, the chief fact with regard to him, 259; based on Hero-worship, 267; propagating by the sword, 316; cannot succeed by being 'easy,' 325
Revolution, 451; the French, 453, 489
Richter, 265
Right and Wrong, 330
Rousseau, not a strong man; his Portrait; egoism, 439; his passionate appeals, 439; his Books, like himself, unhealthy; the Evangelist of the French Revolution, 440
Scepticism, a spiritual paralysis, 424-429
Scotland awakened into life by Knox, 399
Secret, the open, 335
Seid, Mahomet's slave and friend, 313, 326
Shakspeare and the Elizabethan Era, 357; his all-sufficing intellect, 357, 360; his Characters, 359; his Dramas, a part of Nature herself, 362; his joyful tranquillity, and overflowing love of laughter, 363; his hearty Patriotism, 364; glimpses of the world that was in him, 364; a heaven-sent Light-Bringer, 366; a King of Saxondom, 368
Shekinah, Man the true, 266
Silence, the great empire of, 355, 476
Sincerity, better than gracefulness, 286; the first characteristic of heroism and originality, 309, 380, 382, 409
Theocracy, a, striven for by all true Reformers, 407
Thor, and his adventures, 274, 291; his last appearance, 295
Thought, miraculous influence of, 277, 418; musical Thought, 338
Thunder. See Thor
Time, the great mystery of, 268
​Tolerance, true and false, 393, 404
Turenne, 334
Universities, 415
Valour, the basis of all virtue, 287, 290; Norse consecration of, 296; Christian Valour, 374
Voltaire-worship, 270
Wish, the Norse god, 274; enlarged into a heaven by Mahomet, 331
Worms, Luther at, 389
Worship, transcendent wonder, 265. See Hero-worship
Zemzen, the sacred Well, 304
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