My memory was jarred with the happy result that I can now lay before you the contents of that ill-used instrument. In November of 1833, Fraser's magazine began to publish, in strip form, the contents of a book by Thomas Carlyle. Sartor was not well received in England. In fact it was quite universally heaped on. In America, however, and under the supervision of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the book did very well and was received enthusiastically.
Sartor is very hard to classify.
He even doubted his own sanity for having written it. Carlyle used a nonexistant German professor from a nonexistant German town to epouse the Philosophy of Clothes. Carlyle was very impressed by the German Transcendentalists. Like Goethe and Kant, he believed that nature was a living unity, and that this unity could not be investigated by empirism alone. Science, while respected, could not lay claim to a priori truth.