The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-02-16
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Thomas Oarlyle died@t. his resi-
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dence at Chine. Walks, Glfslseay bon
don, England, Saturday morning,
Feb. 5. The event has been SO long
anticipated that it creates no sur
prise. He passed away very quiet
". and evidently without suffering.
Mr.. Carlyle was SO years old, and
has been very feeble for years. He
lived in his little unpretentious
house, in a dingy street close to the
Thames. lie was an inveterate
smoker, never touching a cigarette
or cigar, but welded to his brlar-
root or meerschaum. Until recent
ly he could be seen every morning
out for long walk, moodlng ana
apparently noticing nothing. lie
ate but two meals a day and never
drank more than a couple of glasses
of wine at q time. He was abrupt,
and even rude, in his manners. in
his drawing room (second-foor 'front.'
he received his visitors and kept his
library. His favorite books were
Ruslzin and Emerson. He was
whimsical, and enjoyed hobbies. He
hated Frenchmen and despised
Gambetta. lie opposed free press
and regarded the emancipation OF
the American slaves as a mistake.
He was happy in his married rela-
ton. He was a devoted student OF
the great German authors; Goethe
and Schiller, and advised the study
of German by the English.
Mr.. Carlyle had been able to
see only a few friends since last sum
mer, and for many weeks had been
kept alive by incessant watchfulness
and constant nourishment, the ply
sicians wondering at the tenacity OF
his vital force. Since his first liter
airy efforts in 1924 to his latest pro
duction, "The History of Frederick
the Great of Prussia" in 1858-1664
no man has more potently affected
the thought of the age or more for
chilly enforced the right Of the rule
of the human intellect than he. He
is the incarnation of the might Of
truth-Of that truth which is for the
time in the ascendant-of that truth
which CARLYLE believed in and wOr-
shipped. He has left behind him
ideas which are destined to shake
the civilized world to its center
Long before the French established
cloture-before the force Of circum,
stances compelled the British Par,
lament to turn itself from a deliber.
ative into a merely executive body
Carlyle pronounced the doom OF
Parliament, by deifying that absO-
lutte authority, in the persons Of
great and mighty intellects, which
made the parliaments Of the world
subservient to their wills, because
they believed in their wills and de
tested and despised elaboration, at
ter they had decided for the eoun-
try as we'll as for themselves. But
Mr.. Carlyle went farther than this.
When asked by the late Horace
Greeley, who was one of his devoted
disciples, to write paper on the
United States of America, he pro-
duced that celebrated brochure,
shooting Niagara" in which he
pronounced the doom Of Democracy
and sighed for an island in which
white men should be masters and
negro men their slaves-driven, if
necessary, by the lash to their toll.
Mr.. Carlyle consequently is the
apostle and the prophet Of a time
when the world shall be governed
by men Of intellect, with power to
enforce their DEGREES by the sword.
If he had been Peter at the time
when Christ was about to be deliy-
cred over to the chief priests and
the scribes, he would not have put
up his word at the command of his
Lord, but would have hewn his
Lords enemies and the enemies of
that self-assertive truth of which he
himself was so true a representative,
to pieces. Carlyle's great intellec-
tual and literary insight led him at
an early day in this country to see
things clearly which other men
could not see at all. One of these
is that, as civilization progresses to
its goal action takes the place OF
deliberatiOn; that the policeman's
club is his warrant of law; that the
soldiers bayonet is to replace the
pen of the statesman; that, finally
all the ages having declared that so
ciety must be governed by those tC
whom the might of their intellect'
has been give for that purpose, that
state must assuredly fail to preserve
and assert itself which refuses to act
upon the orders Of its chiefs. Hl
selected Prussia as his idea Of a
gre at. governing State. He doifeC
the Prussian idea of force. Soon af
terward we find Bismarck, the ma
terial representative of that idea
dominating Europe, wiping out
France, and shaking his forefngel
at England and Russia. "Ha," sale
] Carlyle, "here is my hero. Now We
have a Governor for the world who
is worthy to rule, because he acts
while his enemies deliberate"
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