CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

JOHN MORLEY

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904

	Mr. Carlyle's influence, and degree of its durability	[135]
	His literary services	[139]
	No label useful in characterising him	[142]
	The poetic and the scientific temperaments	[144]
	Rousseau and Mr. Carlyle	[147]
	The poetic method of handling social questions	[149]
	Impotent unrest, and his way of treating it	[152]
	Founded on the purest individualism	[154]
	Mr. Carlyle's historic position in the European reaction	[157]
	Coleridge	[159]
	Byron	[161]
	Mr. Carlyle's victory over Byronism	[163]
	Goethe	[164]
	Mr. Carlyle's intensely practical turn, though veiled	[166]
	His identification of material with moral order	[169]
	And acceptance of the doctrine that the end justifies the means	[170]
	Two sets of relations still regulated by pathological principle	[172]
	Defect in Mr. Carlyle's discussion of them	[174]
	His reticences	[176]
	Equally hostile to metaphysics and to the extreme pretensions of the physicist	[177]
	Natural Supernaturalism, and the measure of its truth	[179]
	Two qualities flowing from his peculiar fatalism:—
	(1) Contempt for excess of moral nicety	[182]
	(2) Defect of sympathy with masses of men	[186]
	Perils in his constant sense of the nothingness of life	[188]
	Hero-worship, and its inadequateness	[189]
	Theories of the dissolution of the old European order	[193]
	Mr. Carlyle's view of the French Revolution	[195]
	Of the Reformation and Protestantism	[197]
	Inability to understand the political point of view	[199]