Carlyle : Thomas (1795-1881), British essayist, historian, social reformer famous for his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, & The French Revolution, which influenced, among others Matthew Arnold & John Ruskin.
... Tennyson suffered from triviality. He once declared to his friend Carlyle: "I think I am the greatest master, after Shakespeare, of the rhythmic phrase in poetry, but I have really nothing to say." I may add that Carlyle rated Tennyson highly and saw him as a mighty bard constantly "cosmicising the chaos within him". Perhaps what im-pressed Carlyle was not Tennyson's poetic speech so much as his Page... capacity for silence. Tennyson used often to visit Carlyle and they would sit at either end of the fireplace, smoking away. Two or three hours of an evening they would thus spend, each hidden in his own cloud of smoke and uttering not a word. At the close of the evening they would shake hands and say, "What a grand time we have had together!" Carlyle, as is well known, spent almost a lifetime of writing ...
... It may remind you of what was said of Carlyle: "In 28 volumes of manifold eloquence he Page 62 preached the virtue of silence." But possibly Carlyle was not as absurd as people might make him out. Silence is so rare a virtue that people may not realise the value and the need of it unless a gifted orator dins them into their ears. Again, if Carlyle had the capacity of silence in his own... it in other people's minds. And surely Carlyle did know how to keep silent. There is the famous story of his visits to the poet Tennyson. The two friends would often sit at opposite ends by the fireplace, puffing at their pipes. After a couple of hours of absorption in their own thoughts, without the exchange of a single word, they would get up to part. Carlyle would say to Tennyson: "What a fine evening ...
... signature of the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, R. W. Carlyle. The Carlyle Circular of 10 October 1905 asked the officers to ban schoolboys and college students from participating in the Swadeshi Movement: any disobedience was to be met with exemplary punishment. This was hideous enough. Then, close upon the heels of the Carlyle Circular came the 21 st October letter of Pedler, the Director... for shouting slogans like 'Bande Mataram.' Page 322 c) The police could arrest anybody guilty of discourteous conduct to an Englishman or a Muslim on the streets.... If the Carlyle Circular and the Pedler letter had brought resentment, the Lyon Circular brought revulsion to the whole country. Nor did the students take it all lying down. They raised their voice of protest with ...
... students all over Bengal in the boycott and the picketing, and the stirring of patriotic feeling in the hearts of the people Page 164 fluttered the Government, and the Pedlar and Carlyle Letters, which sought to repress the students' national activities and gag the singing of the national hymn, Bande Mataram, served, instead, to acerbate the already frayed temper of young Bengal... remains loyal to the vision and intuition guiding him from within, he is invincible. He radiates a power which acts with the victorious might of the elemental forces of Nature. "A messenger he", says Carlyle, "sent from the Infinite Unknown with tidings to us. Direct from the Inner Fact of things; - he lives, and has to live, in daily communion with that.... Really his utterances, are they not a kind... been the indispensable saviour of his epoch; - the lightning, without which the fuel never would have burnt." 24 He may be hooted or persecuted, crucified or 24. Hero and Hero Worship by Carlyle. Page 180 poisoned, but his mission can never fail to prosper, for it bears within it the breath and fiat of the Time-Spirit. There may be resistance, more or less vehement and ...
... the Government of India is the Risley Circular. This circular is only a more comprehensive and carefully studied edition of the Carlyle Circular. It brings therefore no unfamiliar element into the problem; but there is this very important difference, that while the Carlyle Circular was a local experiment hastily adopted to meet an urgent difficulty and dropped as soon as it was found difficult to work... Government, with full knowledge of the circumstances and of its possible effects, in the hope of striking at the very root of the Swadeshi movement. Everyone will remember the convulsion created by the Carlyle Circular. Its natural effect would have been to bring about an universal students' strike, and for a Page 453 few days it seemed as if such a strike would actually take place. Unfortunately ...
... and science. Here is the context, to which Mr. Alvares himself refers in a note. 85 I wrote to Sri Aurobindo: The English reader has digested Carlyle and swallowed Meredith and is not quite unwilling to re-Joyce in even more startling strangenesses of expression at the present day. Will his stomach really... the matter. Poetry is permitted to be insane — the poet and the madman go together: though even there are limits. Meredith and Carlyle are tortuous or extravagant in their style only — though they can be perfectly sane when they want. From Mr. Alvares's presentation ...
... evil, or shall he be recognised as the creation of our own conscience? The answer to this question is very momentous, and affects profoundly our whole morality. The worship of Force, to which Carlyle 3 and Nietzsche 4 and the creed of Militarism have accustomed us, is the result of failure to maintain our own ideals against a hostile universe: it is itself a prostrate submission to evil, a sacrifice... burnt in sacrifice. 2. Job is the chief character in the Book of Job (part of the Bible's Old Testament), who, despite great suffering and adversity, kept his faith in God. 3. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Scottish essayist and historian. 4. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900): German philosopher. One of the principles propounded in his philosophy is that the strong must rule ...
... doubtful—one could invent hundreds of beautiful words but the liberty to do so would end in a language like Joyce's which is not desirable. 25 September 1934 The English reader has digested Carlyle and swallowed Meredith and is not quite unwilling to REJOYCE in even more startling strangenesses of expression at the present day. Will his stomach really turn at my little novelties. "The voice of... recommend itself to me. The poetical examples have nothing to do with the matter. Poetry is permitted to be insane—the poet and the madman go together: though even there there are limits. Meredith and Carlyle are tortuous or extravagant in their style only—though they can be perfectly sane when they want. In poetry anything can pass—For instance, my "voice of a tilted nose": O voice of a tilted nose ...
... Chambers must represent a former usage and I am entitled to revive even a past or archaic form if I choose to do so. 10 (9)"O voice of a tilted nose! '' AK: The English reader has digested Carlyle and swallowed Meredith and is not quite unwilling to reJOYCE in even more startling strangenesses of expression at the present day. Will his stomach really turn at the novelty of that phrase [of mine]... itself to me. The poetical examples have nothing to do with the matter. Poetiy is permitted to be insane - the poet and the madman go together: though even there there are limits. Meredith and Carlyle are tortuous or extravagant in their style only — though they can be perfectly sane when they want. In poetry anything can pass — for instance, my 'voice of a tilted nose': O voice of a tilted ...
... minor episode in the history of a mind. An European writer has acutely observed that nothing which is worth knowing can be taught. That is a truth which Dr. Bhandarkar, when he can spare time from his Carlyle, might ponder over with profit. Not what a man learns, but what he observes for himself in life and literature is the formative agency in his existence, and the actual shape it will take is much determined ...
... institution of a widespread and comprehensive system of national education possible and indeed eminently practicable, is the generation of an enthusiasm such as was beginning to gather force after the Carlyle Circular. A stern and bitter struggle between the people and the bureaucracy is the one thing that is likely to generate such an enthusiasm. National education is by no means impracticable or even ...
... 498 Black Swan 374 Blake 589 Brahman 452 Calm White Lines 661 Canticle 41 Canzonet 408 Canzonet 434 Carlyle at the Grave of His Wife 707 Cast out all Fear 722 Celibate Sword 582 Chaser Chased 457 Conquerors 29 Consecration 505 Consummation ...
... Sitaram: The Silent Seeker Underneath all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle Sitaram — not many of today know him. He is a man lost in the backwaters (or ‘washing waters’) of our Dining Room. I, since long, have wondered at the man but could hardly fathom him. I am ...
... the Not So Great Birendra Kumar Palit (Binder of Books) Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ThomaS Carlyle Biren Palit was from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) — Chittagong (many would prefer Chottogram). Diwanpur was his birthplace, may have been a small town or village. Biren-da was an ordinary ...
... indigence, a ‘defeatism of humanity’ such as had never been seen before … “This vehement anti-enlightenment, fed by romantic impulses, was a phenomenon common to the whole of Europe; names like Carlyle, Sorel and Bergson underline this and at the same time indicate some of the main lines along which this reversal in the history of ideas moved. But nowhere did this critique of reason so fully expand ...
... Otherwise you create a state of consciousness in which the things feared from the supposed action of so-called "inauspicious stars" (Shakespeare's phrase) assume a con-creteness and a power to affect you. Carlyle once wrote: "Close your Byron and open your Goethe." He meant the putting aside of the sheer vitalistic urge and the romantic melancholy, and the developing of a mental detachment and an uplifted serenity ...
... consonants have to fit in with one another and not run confusedly in an inharmonious hurry, except for deliberate effects as they do at times in Browning. All these elements viewed externally form what Carlyle would have called the mechanism of rhythm as contrasted with its organism - with the living natural process which is the inspired afflatus taking sound as its medium, its expressive body. No amount ...
... intellectual ineptitude. Unteachable, it bore with a scornful complacency or bewildered anger or a listening ear of impervious indulgence the lightning shafts of Arnold's irony, the turbid fulminations of Carlyle, the fiery raids of Ruskin or saw unaffected others of its fine or great spirits turn for refuge to mediaevalism or socialistic utopias. The work of these forerunners was done in a wilderness of i ...
... struck by this plasticity in the diverse styles English literature teems with - the individual element at almost riotous play as between author and author (Sir Thomas Browne, Addison, Gibbon, Ruskin, Carlyle, Meredith, Arnold, Chesterton, Shaw, etc.) with no persistent tradition of writing as, for instance, in France for both prose and poetry until very recent times when a rebellious 'modernism' blew winds ...
... common men. For, all connoisseurs of higher scholarship recognise that "learning should be bright and luminous, as cheerful as Sydney Smith, as optimistic as Leonardo da Vinci: gloom, like that of Carlyle, mostly means indigestion!" 4 Be it that laughter is decried by the self-styled serious Page 21 people, but even the Gods are said to laugh - they who are the masters of the Spirit's ...
... however trivial, however momentous, like a leashed dog in the hand of the hunter. [Of] such soul-sight and root-centre for the mind mere optimism explains only the surface." Whitman charges it against Carlyle that he lacked this perception. Specimen Days and Collect, Philadelphia, 1882, p. 174. ³. My Quest for God, London, 1897, pp. 268, 269, abridged. 4 Op. cit., pp. 256, 257, abridged ...
... 34. See Urban, Humanity and Deity, p. 81. 35. Dante's Other World, p. 75. 36. Complex, Archetype, Symbol, pp. 76-7. 37. Time and Eternity, p. 63. 38. Carlyle, quoted in Baker, The Sacred River, p. 208. 39. See Gai Eaton, The Richest Vein, pp. 186-7; also Cassirer, Language and Myth, p. 38. 40. Complex, Archetype, Symbol, pp. ...
... perfect way in life. If Napoleon had not come the republic would have been nipped in the bud and there would have been a set-back to democracy. The Cosmic Spirit is not so foolish as to allow that. Carlyle puts the situation more realistically when he says that the condition was, "I kill you, or you kill me". So, it is better that I kill you rather than get killed by you! All this criticism by the ...
... finest thoughts from the sages of all times grouped under "The Song of Wisdom" and "Wisdom and the Religions" - a veritable universal congress of the world's seers, saints and savants like Asoka, Carlyle, Porphyry, Seneca, Emerson, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Voltaire, Tseu-Tse, Confucius, Minamoto Sanetomo, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Epictetus, Lao-Tse, Leibnitz, Hermes, Schopenhauer, Sadi, Asvaghosha ...
... erects dykes and bridges, builds cities, launches ships on the ocean and flying machines in the air; in short it gives more well-being and security to all. 38 'Two men I honour, and no third," said Carlyle: the man whose physical labour yields the needed goods and services, and the man whose intellectual and spiritual labour yields value beyond measure for human progress. And self-reliance is the start ...
... Bose, Subhas Chandra 424 Bluysen, Paul 46, 89-90 Buddha, Gautama, Siddhartha (Shakyamuni) 42, 60, 96,164-6,172,180, 317, 460, 482, 552, 631, 639ff, 772 Bula (Charuchandra Mukherjee) 820 Carlyle, Thomas 483 Cartier-Bresson, Henri 489 Catherine of Siena, Saint 93 Centre of Education, Sri Aurobindo International The Mother opens the School 432-3 interest in the children 432-4 ...
... very morning he had been handed a ticket for Surat and was told that he was to go there as a delegate of the Anti-Circular Society, which had been created two years earlier to oppose the repressive Carlyle Circular. At such a short notice he just managed to throw a few things in a canvas bag, and reach Howrah station in time. Such a crowd there was on the platform ! What jostling I Compartments crammed ...
... the Nationalists through the columns of the Karmayogin. Thus organised, he went to attend the conference." The Risley Circular was a more comprehensive and carefully studied edition of the Carlyle Circular. It was "a desperate attempt of the bureaucracy not only to recover and confirm its hold on the student population and through them on the future, but to make that hold far more stringent ...
... inspiration. Its comments on the official version of the Shantipur case are an instance. It even goes so far as to call on the Railway authorities to punish the "Bengali Stationmaster" because Mr. Carlyle complains of his conduct in the matter. We had to look twice at the top of the sheet before we could persuade ourselves that it was not an Anglo-Indian sheet we were reading. Still worse is ...
... and lasting, we must question all alike rigorously and impartially. The necessity of such a process not for India, but for all humanity has been recognised by leading European thinkers. It was what Carlyle meant when he spoke of swallowing all formulas. It was the process by which Goethe helped to reinvigorate European thinking. But ... Europe has for some time ceased to produce original thinkers, though ...
... to the full height and power of what the intellect of the race could then think out or create in the light of the inheritance of our ages. A small number of writers—in the English language Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin are the best known among these names,—build for us a bridge of transition from the intellectual transcendentalism of the earlier nineteenth century across a subsequent low-lying scientific ...
... mismanagement of the Revolution by a people unaccustomed to political action has put advantages into his hands to which he has no right. But it is significant that the revolution still smoulders. As Carlyle wrote of the French Revolution, it is unquenchable and cannot be stamped down, for the fire-spouts that burst out are no slight surface conflagration but the flames of the pit of Tophet. Murder and ...
... and lasting, we must question all alike rigorously and impartially. The necessity of such a process not for India, but for all humanity has been recognised by leading European thinkers. It was what Carlyle meant when he spoke of swallowing all formulas. It was the process by which Goethe helped to reinvigorate European thinking. But in Europe the stream is running dry before it has reached its sea. Europe ...
... and great literature? Slight outward peculiarities do not matter. I should go to the extent of saying: "Even marked peculiarities do not matter. Haven't you heard of Meredithese and Carlyle's? Carlyle often writes English with a German turn and tone. Some critics even condemn Milton for corrupting the genius of the English language by his Latinism of construction in Paradise Lost. Yet Milton ...
... a poet of the future. Amal Kiran's sweep embraces a wide spectrum: from the Kingfisher to a close companion like Minnie; from Seascape, Daybreak to literary figures like Helena, Dante, Carlyle and Arnold. But naturally, given his primary interests and preoccupations, it is not surprising that most of the poems that find place in the entire corpus are of a spiritual or- mystical kind ...
... mirror-moods." How can a language belong exclusively to a particular territory? Haven't innumerable "creative eccentrics" enriched the English language by bringing a foreign idiom, like the Germanisms of Carlyle and un-English ethereality of Shelley? Amal Kiran is typing so fast that the rapier seems still, it is moving with such incredible skill. Raine steps back and opens another front. Ah, not to use one's ...
... His 'soul was like a star and dwelt apart'. He raised the political consciousness of at least some people to his own level and he did it all because he was through and through sincere — "Sincerity," Carlyle has said, "is the greatest virtue of a great man". All of us know very well the Mother's emphasis on sincerity. There is a line in Savitri referring to Savitri herself, which can be as well applied ...
... Spirit, followed by faith in immortality and faith in personality, until eventually they came to faith in Christ. They mean more than Margaret Fuller's declaration, 'I accept the universe', which led Carlyle to exclaim, 'Gad! she'd better', but the World is the beginning, not the end, of Teilhard's faith." True, there is a series of "faiths" mentioned and expounded, but they arise from the belief ...
... your sadhana Page 308 but I was afraid of being referred to the "Silent Consciousness". Sri Aurobindo : Do you then want me to speak about the Silent Consciousness like Carlyle who preached his doctrine of silence in 40 volumes ? Disciple : The difficulty is that by silent consciousness we can't find where you are. Disciple : We want to know about your own ...
... perfect way. If Napoleon had not come, the Republic would have been smothered in its infancy and democracy would have suffered a setback. No, the Cosmic Spirit is not so foolish as to allow that. Carlyle puts the situation more realistically when he says that the condition was, "I kill you or you kill me. So it is better that I kill you than get killed by you." PURANI: Huxley says war is always ...
... taken a vow of silence and couldn't teach. People will say that he is vowed to silence and yet has written so many books! SRI AUROBINDO: The vow is not supposed to apply to speaking through books. Carlyle not only wrote thirty-seven volumes but also spoke profusely on the value of silence! NIRODBARAN: Poets write poems on silence. SRI AUROBINDO: In 1914 when the Mother came here, there also came ...
... 498, 568 Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 551, 718 Byron, Lord, 78, 490, 614 Caliban upon Setebos, 171 Cameron, D. R., 692fn. Carlyle, Thomas, 241, 271,352 Carmichael, Lord, 378, 408 Carpenter, Edward, 615 Cavour, Count, 237 Centre of Education, Sri Aurobindo International, 762ff; establishment of ...
... press in India, his poetry from Rudyard Kipling, his history from records of oppression: Shakespeare and Milton did not illumine his imagination when he peered into the future of India. Mill, Carlyle or Herbert Spencer did not shed any light on his reasoning when he applied himself to the study of the problems in India. Hume, Froude, Kingsley or Freeman did not help him at all in taking a ...
... Sadhana, but I was afraid of being referred to the 'Silent Consciousness' ", Sri Aurobindo blandly asked: "Do you then want me to speak about Page 542 the Silent Consciousness like Carlyle who preached his doctrine of silence in 40 volumes?" 43 Regarding the possibility of his own death, Sri Aurobindo said: There are three things that can bring it about: 1. Violent ...
... figures as the colossus and Titan of the age while the greater and more significant work of Wordsworth and Shelley is dismissed as an ineffective attempt to poetise a Germanic transcendentalism, Carlyle's ill-tempered and dyspeptic depreciation of Keats, Arnold's inability to see in Shelley anything but an unsubstantially beautiful poet of cloud and dawn and sunset, a born musician who had made a mistake ...
... twenty then. Some of my other articles came out in Dharma afterwards. My writings in English began much later. Now we started collecting a few books. At the very outset he suggested two titles: Carlyle's French Revolution and Green's History of the English People, perhaps in consideration of our taste for history and revolution. Arrangements soon came to be made, ail of a sudden and it seemed ...
... twenty then. Some of my other articles came out in Dharma afterwards. My writings in English began much later. Now we started collecting a few books. At the very outset he suggested two tides: Carlyle's French Revolution and Green's History of the English People, perhaps in consideration of our taste for history and revolution. Arrangements soon came to be made, all of a sudden and it seemed as ...
... used to translate the Mahabharata into English verse and write articles for Bande Mataram , the most prominent newspaper in those days, and at the same time he would explain things to me, such as Carlyle’s idea of the French Revolution and Hero-worship. For the first time I observed that it was quite possible to direct one’s mind towards three or four activities at the same time. Once I could not help ...
... Brahmananda and the Naga sannyasi helped to plant the seed of faith whose potentialities were immense. Was it not a priceless gain in itself that Sri Aurobindo had realised — like Teufelsdrockh in Carlyle's Sartor Resartus — that "Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous"? The Beast of Intellectualism was now contained within its proper sphere, and Sri Aurobindo could therefore soar ...
... so-called, but really ungodly, god-state could only rise from the grave of the individual. But even the greatest individuals were mere instruments in the hands of the Divine, "inspired Texts [in Carlyle's words] of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named history." Men in themselves were but helpless pieces of straw swaying hither and ...
... reserved and quiet." "Are the English like that?" "Not exactly, but their actions speak louder than their words. I'll tell you a funny story. Tennyson, the English poet, was a great friend of Carlyle's. Surely you know Garlyle? His French Revolution is truly an admirable book. I believe Nolini, even in his early teens, had already read the entire book. Anyhow, when these two writers met, they often ...
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