The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-17
A LECTURE ON CARLYLE
DELIYERED UNDER THE AUSPICES
or CLAN M'LEOD, NO. 81, 0. s. O.

By Mrs. John Dean of Yale University
An Address of Much Interest.
Clan McLeod's hall was we'll filed
last night by many of the Scottish res
idents and members of Clan Mcleod
and the Caledonian club, who assem-
bled to hear a lecture on the great Scot
fish historian, Thomas Carlyle. The
lecture was the third of the course ar
ranged under the clans auspices, and
was delivered by Mr.. John Dean Of
Yale Divinity school.
The chair was occupied by Chief w.
l.. Andrew, who introduced Mr. Dean
in few we'll chosen remarks. During
the delivery of the lecture Mr.. Dean
was frequently applauded for the able
'mannerin which he handled his subject
ana at the finish was accorded a very
hearty vote of thanks.
MI. Dean spoke in part as followsi
Among Scotchmen of the first class
who rank with Burns and Scott there
may have been healthier, and happier
spirits, but none loftier. Without doubt
Thomas Carlyle was the strongest in
dividuality ever produced by Scotland
He was Scotch to the core. Forty years
in the fashionable society of the great
est city in the world failed to make
anything else OF him.
He remained an Annandale man to
the close of his long career and could
never quite rid himself of the rustic
manner and homely dialect of the Scot
fish lowlander. Travellers in the Hartz
ascending the Broken are in certain
atmospheres startled by the appari-
ton of shadowy ffgure-a giant I'M
age of themselves, thrown on the hori-
zon by the dawn. Similar is the rela-
ton of Carlyle to the common types OF
his countrymen."
Because CarIyle's first recognition
came from America, and his last from
his own countrymen, it becomes us as
Scottish Americans to give him that
just appreciation and well merited APP
plause which he deserves, avoiding
both the Indifference and contempt to
which he was subject before his inau-
gural address as Lord Rector of Edin-
burgh university and the equally blind
devotion paid to him afterwards when
''the stone which the builders rejected
became the headstone of the corner
and the terror of the pulpit its text"
While the tardy praise of the dead
poet Burns was resounding through the
length and breadth of the land in the
neighboring town the little babe was
perhaps quietly sleeping upon it's moth
ers knee, who would give the world
portrait Of the departed, which stands
without equal in our literature as a
correct delineation.
Carlyle attempted to gain the serene
| repose of his master Goethe, but he
never quite reached it. His struggle
was brave and stern one. No soul
was ever better equipped to fight the
rulers of darkness than he, and how
well he fought you all know.
His chief prescription was work
genuine work alone; what Thou work
est faithfully, that is eternal, as the
Almighty Founder and World Builder
Himself, stand thou by that; and let
Fame go andtthe rest prating."
Heard are the voices,
Heard are the sages,
The worlds and the ages;
Choose we'll; your choice is
Brief and yet endless"
Goethe.
Whatever Carlyle believed was the
truth and nothing else He would not
speak a, word he did not believe. nor
would he suppress a word he did be-
lieye. This course of action was oppos-
ed to speedy success.
The speaker dwelt upon the aim and
teaching Of the chief works his stvIe.
the honors which were offered to him
and The nermanence of his Influence
Time must be ennloved as we'll as
numerous chronicles before the infu-
ence of CARLYLE can be adequately meas
hearts of the men who lead and can
never be wholly effaced by the words of
the men who crate. The names OF those
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