Arizona republican., 1892-12-20
LIFELONG FRIENDS.
TIE STRANGE FRIENDSHIP OF EM.
 ERSoN AND CARLYLE.

and Tastes-Disliked Each Other as thinkers, but Loved as Men. The friendship of Goethe and Schiller, of Beaumont and Fletcher, of Irving and Paulding, of Socrates and Plato, have often been noticed as among the friendships of literary or philosophical minds.
 But perhaps one of the strangest lit- srary friendships was the lifelong inti- macy between Emerson and Carlyle. This intimacy was not fostered by per ,oual contact, for Emerson and Carlyle met each other only upon two or three occasions All their lives wide ocean ot space divided them, and wide ocean of tastes and temperament. It would he hard to find two men who were more totally unlike. Carlyle was fierce, tu- multuous, the most terrific scold in all history. Emerson was mild and benig- nant as an afternoon in September. Car lyle frOwned like thunder cloud, and Emerson glowed like sunburst. Carlyle seemed to despair of the flu ure of the race and believe that the crazy old world was rattling on the down grade to destruction. Emerson was one of the most persistent optimists in all history. The past looked great to
 him, the present looked grand and the
 future looked grander. Carlyle's style
 WAS jerky, explosive and smashed to-
 gsther like a railroad wreck. Emerson's
 style was compact, smooth and epigram- natc. Carlyle wrote long histories like
 frederick the Great" and the French
 Revolution" which read like a long
 drawn out series of spasms, as if their
 suthOr's pen was afflicted with the St.
 Titus dance. Emerson wrote short, con-
 psct essays, in which every thought was
 vacked in the smallest possible compass.
 The views of these two men were al-
 most diametrically opposed. Carlyle, es-
 pecially in his later days, seemed to
 believe ill an absolute monarchy. He ad-
 hired the czar of Russia. His great his
 ,orical heroes were men who had ruled
 men with a hand of iron. Emerson was
 affirm champion of republican institu-
 lOls.
 Both Emerson and Carlyle were semi
 ayalids all their lives. But Enerson's
 nyaidism only served to draw out the
 latent sunshine of his nature. The more
 Aewas chastened by disease the sweeter
 grew his disposition. Carlyle's invalid
 ism made him rage like caged tiger.
 All his life long he thundered lurid de-
 n1nciations at his own stomach. Emer-
 son wished to be known as lover of
 men; Carlyle called the public mostly
 bOls"
 Yet these two men, so dissimilar in |
 their tastes and temperaments, main-
 nined a lifelong friendship, and in fact | Emerson and Edward Irving were about | the ouly men of this generation that | Carlyle ever spoke of with respect.
 "Sartor Resartus," Carlyle's first | lengthy work and probably his master piece, was first brought out, in book form, in America by Emerson. The first words of warm appreciation that ihe book received came from this side of the Atlantic. In England it was re- ceiyed with gibes and sneers and con tempt. It was, and still remains, one of the stTangest books that was ever writ ten, but it is full charged with Carlyle's volcanic and dynamic genius. Emerson was one of the first to appreciate this genius and help to find it a public.
 All of Carlyle's successive books as they appeared found warm admirer in Emerson, though he must have violent ly disagreed with many of their senti- ments.
 perpetual correspondence was kept up between the two men. In this corre- spOndence Emerson was at his best, and Carlyle never was more characteristic than in his letters to Emerson. He must have, in his inmost heart, despised the theories and thoughts expressed in Elm sysOns books, for his whole life was battle against these theories and thoughts. But in spite of this radical difference of ideas there was something about the man he liked. Emerson must have abominated many of the expressed opinions of Carlyle, and yet he was pow ertully impressed by Carlyle's person. ality.
 They both hated each other as think CTS, but loved each other as men.
 This friendship ought to demonstrate that the strongest attachments grow up between men of entirely di- yergent tendencies of thought. Men seek their opposites for friends as they seek their opposites for wives. It is easy for one man to like and respect another man without agreeing with him, It is possible, however, that if Emerson and Carlyle had been thrown Into closer intimacy they would not have continued their friendship so long.
 Carlyle was not an easy man to live with, as his own wife discovered to her sorrow. He became a chronic scold. He found fault with his food. He scold- I'd fl draft of air blew too rudely upon .is cheek. He was mad if dog parked, cat mewed or hen cackled. He hated sll his neighbors inversely as he loved himself. And genius as he was, his 'tyIe seems to indicate that he loved llmself very intensely. Emerson, on he other hand, may be written as one Who loved his fellow man Humanity |