The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-04-28

laudations for tho great and strong men in
history. But as he grew older, and, as it
would appear, more soured with the world,
he required something moro stimulating.
Blood appeared to be q necessary condiment.
CROMWELL, RoBEsPIERRE and DANToN offered
strong points but FRIEDRICH is tho great
idol of his soul-Fritzolatry his religion. A
strong man can do no wrong. Let King
but be obstinate, or, to call it by daintier
phrase, be firm, and Mr.. CARLYLE gives him
carte blanrae,-he may hang, draw and quarter
when, where and whom he likes.
Mr.. CARLYLE hates vulgarity, and raves
at stupidity; and the world is both stupid
and vulgar. He abominates hypoorites and
the world is full of can't He cannot stand
humbug, and the earth is full of shams.
What wonder he scolds! But we have heard
so much about Dryasdust, Smellfungus & Co.,
losing our appetite for dinner. He has
played too long and too often on the one
string, we are surfeited. A slight change
would be desirable.
He hates America, and never allows an
opportunity to slip without giving us his beni-
son. The English, he thinks, are great fools,
but the Yankees are greater. Philanthropy
lin the Anglo-Amerioan sense of the word)
he calls the greatest sham Of the century.
This he has reiterated for fifty years. He
has no faith in the ability of average man.
kind to govern themselves. Democracy is
the sum of all villany; Constitutional Mon
archies arc shams and failures. Men do not
know what they want; but he kindly tells
them: they want a master with q long whip.
GENGHIs KHAN and Frederick are his beau
ideals. What he thinks, and always has
thought, of our late "peculiar institution," it
were needless to say, after what has been al
ready stated.
We have not heard Mr.. CARLyLE's opinion
of BIsMARK, but do not doubt that the Prus-
sian Minister stands high in the Scotsman's
estimate. There is such an entire agreement
in their views. But if BIsmARK would keep
the respect of his old Caledonian friend, he
must lose no time, and forthwith pocket the
Prussian Constitution, send the Deputies
about their business, and (if he feels himself
strong enough) pull Austria by the nose, and
annex or incorporate oil the minor German
States. These are the very lowest terms up.
Minister'S claims to place in his pantheon
Mr.. CARLYLE recently delivered q speech
on his installation as Provost Of the University
of Edinburgh. TWAS an hour and half ir
length, but very practical and interesting ani
we'll received. Fortunately, he had concluded
not to write fine speech, so he prepared
nothing beforehand, and just gave the stu
: dents fatherly talk in plain English, as lit
; tie Carlylese as possible; but still character
lied all through by the unmistakable mark
: and peouliarities of his mind. He give
} them wholesome advice; tells them to b,
: diligent in their studies, avoid cramming, ant
: obey their teachers; speaks slightingly o
books, but is most earnest in his injunction t,
them to hold their tongues. He speaks a
length of the harm fine speech has done
PHoc1oN, he says, who did not speak at all
} was q great deal nearer hitting the trutl
l than DEMosTHENEs. Mr.. G. has great spit
against DEMosrHENEs. Was it because b
was eloquent, or only because he was Dem
orat9 He says: t..
81 do not mean to say vocal education shoul
J be entirely excluded; but look to something tha
will take hold of the matter much more closely
and not allow 1t to slip out Of fingers and re
main worse than it was. For, If good speaker
an eloquent sDeaker-is not speaking the truth,
. there more horrid kind Of object in creation ?'
f Of course he tells them to keep out of lite
3 rature. The boys he addressed might tel
him he ought not to preach what he is nc
practicing. He, the greatest talker an
. writer of the age, tells them to hold thei
t tongues and keep out of literature.
: The requirements of the age, he says, are
D GA man with his intellect clear, plain, get
metric mirror, brilliantly sensitive OF all object
I and impressions around Fit, and imagining q
things in their correct proportions twisted Il
INTO convex or concave,. and distorting everythin
: so that he cannot see the truth, Of the matte
n without endless grouping and manipulation
healthy, clear and free, and seeing all round abor
! him." tI@f a,..
o But, he admits, eve can never attain tht
at all" He closes with fine invocation
f the Future, translated from GOETHE J; an
f Zone last word. Wir heissen eueh hofe
n We bid you hope"
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