The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-04-09

attend 20 higher thinRf IL would DC vefr mucn
mors 70 their credit But this was what they
failed TO do. .',.-.r
He said somebody had sont him q little book
entitled " The Mystery Of Pain" which ne did
not road and made haste to be rid Of He
thought II q viIlainous publication. Ifanything
was to be said on such q subject It should
rather be on the " mystery OF pleasure" for
why should such q miserable being as man
have anything but pain? To complain OF 1t
was m offence to the Creator. 1t was like the
meanest instrument complainine OF It's maker.
A plain. palpable. absurd pretension. an
nbominable outrage and impudonce. 1t re-
minded him Of Sandy Mcleod. n sturdy old
countryman In his fathers family. whom no
know In his boyhood. Somebody complained
to Sandy 81 his eriefs. "You miserable lout."
responded SANDY. what business have you to
complain OF your lot Do thankful you are not
roasting In hell" Hound Mr.. Carlyle. as well
as his brother. opposed to the Reform bill
then before Parliament. and predicting Its
| defeat Oh tho coming Monday and the going
out OF the Ministry.
Mr.. CARLYLE was less pronounced on tho
downward tendancy OF events than he had
been heretofore. He even thought II was an
open question what was to be the result Of the
abolition OF slavery and the spread OF tho
Americans and English everywhere. But no
held to his old Idea that the present system
OF voluntary service. or hired servants. could
not last nfty years. 1t was the Heaven-ordained
lot OF some to serve and some to
and bringing In wnges to settle rs to who was
to do these things was a blotch on the eternal
fitness OF things.
Ho rave his opinions on Comte and Mill.
both Of whom he thought good teachers OF
logic: and II was o pity they did not attend to
thnt business and leave other things alone.
Mr.. Mill was o ~favorite OF his formerly. He
| wrote in the very clearest English. and his
logic" was unexceptionable. His book on
Liberty" was clear. but hud no sound basis.
He favored liberty. but It was the liberty OF
going to heaven or hell just as every man
pleased. and Mr.. MILD did n lot seem to caro- much
which. This was damnable doctrine. Every
man should 20 right. and II he did not do 1t OF
his own accord he should BIO made to do It.
For himself. he would be thankful to any man
who found him.. Carlyle. going wrong to take
him by the shoulder and set him right.
I referred TO the circumstance that among
the 1000 or !. 700 names deemed sufficiently
renowned to be in scribed on the external
panels Of the great library near the Pantheon
In Paris. but three OF them were Americans.
These wore Washington. Franklin. and Fulton.
He went on to speak OF Franklin in very high
terms. bat Thought that the names OF Wash
ington and franklin were very inapproprtately
claSsei with Fulton'S-
. He said Washington was not to be named in
the same day with Franklin. and as to Fulton.
he had no claim OF any kind to be associated
in such company.
He declared that the Invention Of the steam
boat was made By ono Miller. who originated
In his. Carlyles county. in Scotland. Miller
went to London and built steamboats,. and ex-
hlbited thcm on the Thames. whore they pad
died about Just as steamers do now. But nobody
hooded the invsntion. and Miller spent al. his
money and died poor. He had a man named
Bali who was his carpenter. After Mil!or,s
death Bali went to New York. where no fol-
lowed his trade for some time. Becoming ac-
qualnted With Fulton. he impaired to him all
he had learned by his connection with Miller.
Fulton became Interested In the subject and
did what he did. But he borrowed his IDEAS
from Ball and Miller.
As to Franklin. he was genial and full OF wise
practical ideas. and had a fine bit Of humor in
him. He. Carlyle. had discovered that It was
Just above his own house on tho Thames that
Franklin. on some proyocation or bet. went
into the river and swan down to London
| Bridge-it must be three or four miles-his
| fellow wo.kr,en having faithfully carried his
clothes.
durRnce. and were very DESTROYS he should
open o swimming school. saying he would
make his fortune.
He spoke OF the Fenians and the irish and
said they had good qualities. but the British
Government had managed miserabiy in gov
erning them. They had never been half so
we'll of as under Cromwell. who ruled them
with n stiff hand. and Clarendon. who hated
Cromwell intensely. admitted this. The only
way was to govern them md not allow them
present generation OF British statesmen had
failed-allowing such follows to have their
On leaving Mr.. Carlyle asked II ! knew En-:
sss0nhi i sayinG Il ! say ,d lim to tell tell Gi md b hna
"a very remarkable man"
Mr.. Carlyle impressed me ne q man who. hay
i tbg c sd0ptetc a .s shsoTK t; Gi tx shs xG mnnkind an IN
still less for the Individual. The single man.
whoever he may be. is too microscopic an OBJ
this object protests against the Carlyliun view.
his voice e regarded as Of about the same nc-
Ing through tho she'll is to II man VINO Is in.
cubatinG eggs by steam to obtain iowls Tor
n %saiss and hf imp ses5a nam and s' as Taking X If uo oyor
and talking down. By sheer yehemence. who
ever seeks to oppose him.
btiity that Ill brooks inconsiderate opposition.
He easily gets into a ,vlrtuous rage on an NIB
as 1t would, DO in the case OF an ordinary man
to attack his person. TO question MS argu-
slap his face. to dispute his facts is to Knock
II is thus Mr.. Carlyle's resentment is excited
larguntentativelyL just according to the ma
ture Of the attack: 1t is simply nousens. to
COIN plain OF this. It IL to find iauit with him
for what he ie. II he were cool and judicial
and mild and forbeafnG and tame. then he
would not be Mr.. Carlyle.
In. eminent men there often seems to be two
distinct forces. Ono may he called nervous
force, the other pure understanding.
innt.s ar, 1t I sensrst tssG an nS amount ' Of steam p.su shat
drives his Understanding at 2 velocity Tor
which nature never intended the machine to
travel. The consequence is IT Is sometimes
forced of the track. Restore tho equilibrium
q forces apd beautiful results. are lrodueed.
best known and most valued productions In the
lives OF Schiller and stirling. and the crlti-
eisms on Burns 1t would be curious to In
quirs under what peculiar mental circum-
stances those and some other oil, his writings
were prod uced. 1t is not SO much tho force Of
understanding that enc feels In MIR. Carlyle's
presence ne It IA his fierce perception. his
glowing spirit. his Intense nature. his scholar
yaeautsiiona
Human nature In the abstract Is. a problem
too great for him 10 solve, as 1t II for all the