Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-25
lHOMAS CARLYLE.

tIoMAN CARLYLE.
The Proceedings OF the Dialectic Club
What thd Local Liierati Can do-An Able
Paper by Prof. Templeton.
The l,iec,ic clut is local organ
ization OF tleven gentlemen who come
together ffr the purpose OF discussing
various subjects and the topics of the
day. Tbey meet every week, with an
essay from one Of the members, while
the Others will discuss its merits end
demerits. We give below Prof. Tenn
pleton's PAPER, which we consider a
mastery Production, on the great Scot.
tish philosopher and writer, Carlyle:
THOMAS CARLYLE.
Had Mount Athos been
Carved, as Persian Xerxes sehemed,
Into the colossal statue Of q man,
The peasants gathering brushwood in his ear,
Had dreatneS as littls Of any human form up there
As would aoek Of browsing goats.
They'd have, IN fact, to wander ten miles of
Before the giani image broke on them,
Full human profile
The same is true Of Carlyle. He Is
too big man. rs yet to be focused by
the lenses OF English cnclopadiests. 1t
Is left for Americans to turn their
glasses, 1esred of the. chromatic dis.
tortions d petty jealousies and spiteful
calumniss, to the classic shores Of the
csnny Scots or the fog-drapsd metro
polls Of her southern sister, Carlyle's
adopted home, and mark on the object
glass the strong outlines Of a human
form, with the elements SO mixed IN
It that Nature might stand up and say
to all the world. This is mani"
Thomss Carlyle was born In the vii
lags of Ecclefechan, in the southern
psrt of Scotland, on the l4th day Of
December, 1895. His father was q
stonemsson and farmer and bis mother
belonged to the same rank. Thomas
Was the oldest of nine children ard In
of his sturdy intellect
and prscociousness, his Jealous Pres
byterisn parents determined to edu-
,ate him for the ministry. By econo-
mixing in all ways possible they sent
him TO Edinburgh University when
but fourteen years Of age, from which
he g1 dered t. in 1914, having aistin-
yui tion. ~ in the mathematics
Ant first stoo After teaching four
yes gers of IN Of mathematics, he
rss cause il cpgeniality Of bis pro-
fest zens of THAT OF prospective
pui their enc his tastes led him into
the build ar s-ature, He therefore
re.S the No, burg University and
pega. nj, Curse of reading in pre-
paratioh sor his future life work. His
career began with biographi-
cal articles for Brewster's Edinburgh
contributions to the
Review, followed by a
of legends. with prefa.
ory essay on proportion. Next fol
owed his life of Schiller, OF such ex-
,ellence that Goethe translated it at
,nce into German; then, in 1924, a
Of Wilhelm Meister's APP
which established his
literary character among the critics.
In 1926 he was married 10 Miss Jane
Welsh, daughter Of DR.. Welcb, of
whose strength of char
.cter and purity of life eminent,
tilted her for the wife Of man OF
genius That this was happy, con
genial UNION am prepared to prove,
froude's aspersions to the contrary
Notwithstanding. On her tombstone
nay be found this inscription by her
husbands: "For forty years she wss
he true and loving helpmeet of her
husband, and by act and word un.
forwarded him as none else
,ould, in all OF worthy that be did or
attempted" The first two years Of
life were speLt in Edinburgh,
where he translated a series of German
articles, published under the title OF
German Romance. His home for the
next six years was on little farm
near Dumfries owned by Mrs. Carlyle
and known as Craiggenputtoch, where,
In spite Of dyspepsia, some of his best
work was done. 1t was from here
that his fret book, Sartor Resartus,
started on Its tour Of rejection, which
was not terminated until 1884. when n
publisher was found with enough lit
erary Insight to present IL To the pub
lie. His history Of the French Revo-
luton followed In 1887. being pub
Iished from the second copy Of manu-
script, the first having been burned
by the servant girl of friend to whom
he had submitted II for approval or
His friend carelessly left II
on the table and the servant, thinking
II waste paper, threw II into the fire
and In less than a minute the lnde-
fstigable labofs Of years passed int"
thin air. Nothing dsunted, however,
Carlyle began Immediately at the first