Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-02-16

same traits ana While this remains
true, the teachings of Thomas Carlyle,
which smote the ears of his own age
like clarion, will lose little of their
pertinence and power.
ANOTHER NOBLE TRIBUTE.
Philadelphia Times.
He toiled ior long time as Milton
toiled, as Bacon toiled, as Locke toiled,
guided only by his own overmastering
instinct OF the God.given mission feoun.
dating his thought, upholding his faint.
ing courage, He was during the first
fifty years of his life the epitomc and
full consummate realization of his own
definition OF genius. The power to
work, TO give attention TO details, to
be as accurate in the color Of mans
complexion, in art, as in tracing the
heredity that shaped his traits. His
pictures of men come before the reader
as clearly cut, as minutely fashioned
in outline, as portrait OF Titan or
Valasquez. His Marabeau, Cromwell,
Frederick, Lafayette, Luther, Burns
and Robespierre will coexist with the
language in which they are written.
Truth and that justified, has his mis-.
sion, but truth to him was beacon Of
constantly changing lights. None but
the strong food fully in its white glare,
but once under Its effulgent luminous.
ness no defects appeared to the blind.
cd eyes Of the worshiper. In other
words, force, the strong man, moving
on a heroic plane, with trampled peo,
Piles and overturned systems as the
mighty framework OF their action.
He began, the apostle of progress in
the widest sense, the ally of reform,
the evangel Of humanity. He ended
the advocate endowed beyond any
other thinker of his time, the Abdiel
of reaction, the panegyrist of blood
and iron, the bondsman of force.
lie began his teachings with per.
haps the clearest insight into the his.
tory of the past OF any man who has
written since S.. Paul. He was near
the woes of the race as he set out but
day by day battling hosts arose and
they seemed not only to dim his vision
but chill the ardor of his soul for the
things that had at first fired his pen
The conquest of peoples by great be.
came his ideal of force in action. The
revolt Of peoples against warriors and
systems Of tyrany became TO him the
'infnite babblement" of fools. The
tremendous outburst OF the French
Revolution at first fascinated him, but
the very intensity Of what Bacon calls
the "dry light of history, which his
own hand had lit, brought out only
the most baleful actors for tho contem-
plation and admiration OF mankind.
It would be difficult to set bounds to
the majesty Of his intellectual march
in dealing with the occult in history
II would be not less difficult to pont
out the real tendency, contrasting his
earlier with his later aims, His life.
work, like that Of great tumultuous
river, cannot be told while the angry, |
'wirling pillows Of its force are still
lowing on, deafening as well as daz-
sling the beholder. The noblest max |
ms Of life, the most austere code of
morals, the most inspiring incentives
70 action, may be found in every chap
.er he has written. These are brought |
nto tho most incongruous opposition,
% the most mourniul prostration be.
ore the yelled gods of absolutsm,
mysticism and king.oraft. The whole
iie thought Of his later years was de-
7oted to the teaching that the people,
ike the children Of Israel, had sinned
rom their very nature and that Il was
ho will Of God that a king-that is, a
be set in perpetuity over
hem. He went much further than
he prophet who gave Israel king as
punishment; he set the king up as the
,e all and end alias the sign and 10.
ten Of a well ordered system. Yet
wen in these teachings he was as
,randly inconsistent as he was grand.
y bold in turning back the mighty
iurrent of his own first overwhelming
naelstrom of thought. Indeed, a
naelstrom is the one object in nature
bat the mans vast life-work may be
lkened to. IL has no beginning and