Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I
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Man is the creature ofhis destiny. As for our supposed claims on the heavenly powers: Whatright, he asks, hadst thou even to be? Fatalism of this stamp is thenatural and unavoidable issue of a born positivity of spirit, uninformedby scientific meditation. It exists in its coarsest and most childishkind in adventurous freebooters of the type of Napoleon, and in a nobleand not egotistic kind in Oliver Cromwell's pious interpretation of theorder of events by the good will and providence of God.
Tw...o conspicuous qualities of Carlylean doctrine flow from this fatalism, or poetised utilitarianism, or illumined positivity. One of them is atolerably constant contempt for excessive nicety in moral distinctions, and an aversion to the monotonous attitude of praise and blame. In acountry overrun and corroded to the heart, as Great Britain is, withcant and a foul mechanical hypocrisy, this temper ought to have had itsuses in giving a much-needed robustness to public judgment. One mightsuppose, from the tone of opinion among us, not only that the differencebetween right and wrong marks the most important aspect of conduct, which would be true; but that it marks the only aspect of it thatexists, or that is worth considering, which is most profoundly false.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Man is the creature ofhis destiny. As for our supposed claims on the heavenly powers: Whatright, he asks, hadst thou even to be? Fatalism of this stamp is thenatural and unavoidable issue of a born positivity of spirit, uninformedby scientific meditation. It exists in its coarsest and most childishkind in adventurous freebooters of the type of Napoleon, and in a nobleand not egotistic kind in Oliver Cromwell's pious interpretation of theorder of events by the good will and providence of God.
Tw...o conspicuous qualities of Carlylean doctrine flow from this fatalism, or poetised utilitarianism, or illumined positivity. One of them is atolerably constant contempt for excessive nicety in moral distinctions, and an aversion to the monotonous attitude of praise and blame. In acountry overrun and corroded to the heart, as Great Britain is, withcant and a foul mechanical hypocrisy, this temper ought to have had itsuses in giving a much-needed robustness to public judgment. One mightsuppose, from the tone of opinion among us, not only that the differencebetween right and wrong marks the most important aspect of conduct, which would be true; but that it marks the only aspect of it thatexists, or that is worth considering, which is most profoundly false.
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