New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-05-16
THE TRIBUNE.
PAST AND PRESENT:' By CARLYLE.
Second Notice.

Second Notice.
This is a great book-a noble bool6-and We
take blame to ourself for having rashly asserted,
before we had readi thoroughly, that the author
keen-sghtcd at discovering Social evils and ire
mendous in depicting them, was yet BIND as 70
their appropriate remedies. He does see and IN
dicate those rcmedes-not entirely ana III de'aii'
but in spirit and in substance very clearly ana
forcib!y. There has no new work Of equal prac-
teal value with this been put forth by any
writer Of cminence within tire century. Although
specially addressed to and treating OF the PcoPie
o: England. its thoughts arc Of immense value
and general application here, and we hope many
thousand copies of the work will instantly be put
ii circulation But let us here introduce the
american Editors notice and add the expression
Of our own earnest hope that the obvious right OF
Mr. Carlyle will be carefully respected by all
"AMrRIcAs EDITOR, NOTICE.
This book printed from private copy partly in man,
,etint sent h., the author liz friends III this coratry aud
i published for his benet. lhope this notice that the profits
If The sale of tbs edition secured to Mr.. Caryle, Will
persuade every well disposed publisher respect his proper
" in his own book h W. EMERSON.
Concord Mass. May /, l813.'
A
the book
All work, even cotton-spnnlng, Is noble: work
ID alone noble: be that here SAID and asserted once
more And in like manner tooall dlgnltyls pam
ful life of case is not for any man, nor for any
rod The life of all gods figures itself to us as
Sublime SadneSs-earnestnes of Infinite Battle
apainst Infinite Labor. Our highest religion is
named the Worship of Sorrow For the son OF
man there is 40 noble crown, well worn, or even
i'll worn, but is a crown of thons, These things
in spoken words or still better, In felt instincts IN
every heart, were once well known.
Does not the whole wretchCdness, the whole
Atheism, as call it, Of mans ways, IN these gen.
eations, shadow itself for us in that unSpeakabc
Life philosophy Of his The pretenson TO be what
he calls happy 2? Every pitifulest whipster that
walks within a skin has his head fllcd;wth the no.
ton that he is, shall be. or by all human and d.
vine laws ought 10 be, happy His wishes, the
ptiiulcst whipstcr's, 10 be fulfilled for hln !;
his DAYS the p,i:ules, whij scrs are to flow on III
ever gentle current of enjoyment impossible even
for the gods The prophets preach to U.s. Thou
shalt be happy; thou shalt love pleasant things.
and find them. The people clalnor, Why have we
not found pleasant things
We construct our theory Of Human Duties, not
on any Greatest Nobencss Principle, never so ms
taken no, but on a Greatest Happiness Principle.
The word S0ut with Us, as III some Slavonc d.
alects, seems TO be synonymous with Stomach
We plead and speak III our parllamcn's and else
where, not as from the Soul, but from the Sto-
mach Wherefore, indeed our peadlngs are so
slow TO profit. We plead not for Gods Justice
NE arc not ashamed toStand camOrng and plead
ing for our own Interests, our own rents and
.radc-profits; we say, They are the interests Of
so many; there is such an intense desire for them
IN us. We demand Free Trade. with much Just
vocifcratlon and benCvolence, That the poorer
classes who terribly ill-ofi at present, may have
cheaper New-Orcans bacon. Men ask on Free
Trade platforms, How can the indomitablc spirit
ofEnglishmen be kept up without plenty of bacon
We shall become ruined Nation Surely, my
friends, plenty of bacon is good and Indispensable;
but, | doubt, you will never get even bacon by
aiming only at that. You are men, not animals
of prey, well-uscd or ill-uscd. Your Greatest
Happiness Principle seems to me fast becominga
rather unhappy onc.-What if VIC should cease
babbling about happiness and leave it resting
on its own basis, as it used to do
A gifted Byron rises in his wrath and feeling
TOO surely that he for his part Is not happy, dc
SiditS tile III NCiS ldllS ds a
piece of news that may be interesting. 1t evil
IDENTIFY has surprised him much. One dislkes to
see a man and poet reduced to proclaim on the
streets such tdngs; but on the whole, as mat
tcrs GO, that is not the most dislikable. Byron
speaks the truth in this matter. Byron's large
audience indicates how true it is felt to be-
Happy, my brother First of all, what differ
encc is 1t whether thou art happy or not ? To-day
becomes yesterday SO fast, all To-morrows be-
come Yesterdays, and then there is TO question
Whatever of the happiness, but quite another
question: Nay, thou hast such a sacred pity left
at least for thyscli, thy very pains once gone over
INTO Yesterday become Joys to thee. Besides,
thou knowest not what heavenly blesSedncss and
indispensable Sanativc virtue was in them: thou
shalt only know 1t after many days when thou
art wiser A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in
our company, with patient fallen sick by gour-
mandlslng, whom he had Just, too briefly Ill the
patents judgement, been examining. The fool
lsi patient still at intervals continued TO break III
on our discourse, which rather promised 10 take
phliosophic turn: But have lost my appetite,
SAID he, oljurgativcly, with tone ofirrltated pa
thos; have no appetite can't eat. -" My
dear fellow" answered the Doctor in mildcSt tone,
= II is MT OF the slightest consequence; and
continued his philosophical discourslngS with US
Or does the reader not know the history of that
Scottish iron Nlisanthrope The inmates of some
town-mansion, III those Northern parts. were
thrown into the tearfulcSt alarm by indubitable
symptoms OF ghoS, inhabting the next house,
or perhaps even the partiuon-wall Ever at a GER
lam hour with pyetcrnatural gnarrng, growing
and screening, which attended as running bass,
there began ma horrd, semi-artlculate, unearthly
voice, thus song Once | was hap-hap-happy,
bat now l m meeserablc Clack.clack.clack
gnarr-r-r, whuz-z: Once | was hap.haphappy,
but now ! IN mess. cradle Rest. rest. perturbed
spirit or indeed, as the good old Doctor said !:
My dear fellow, it is Mt of the slightest conse-
quence. But no; the perturbed spirit could not