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SARTOR RESARTUS

Teufelsdröckh watch-tower, 15, 26; first feels the pressure of his task, 40; his bulky Weissnichtwo Packet, 58; strenuous efforts to evolve some historic order out of such interminable documentary confusion, 62; partial success, 71, 80, 124; mysterious hints, 161, 187; astonishment and hesitation, 172; congratulations, 214; farewell, 233.

Education, influence of early, 75; insignificant portion depending on Schools, 81; educational Architects, 84; the inspired Thinker, 181.

Emblems, all visible things, 57.

Emigration, 183.

Eternity, looking through Time, 16, 58, 178.

Evil, Origin of, 151.

Eyes and Spectacles, 54.


Facts, engraved Hierograms, for which the fewest have the key, 161.

Faith, the one thing needful, 139.

Fantasy, the true Heaven-gate or Hell-gate of man, 115, 175.

Fashionable Novels, 221.

Fatherhood, 68.

Feebleness, the true misery, 131.

Fire, and vital fixe, 56, 136.

Force, universal presence of, 56.

Fortunatus' Wishing-hat, 207, 209

Fox's, George, heavenward aspirations and earthly independence, 166.

Fraser's Magazine, 7, 242.

Frederick the Great, symbolic glimpse of, 64.

Friendship, now obsolete, 94; an incredible tradition, 132, 185; how it were possible, 171, 235.

Futteral and his Wife, 64.

Future, organic filaments of the, 194.


Genius, the world's treatment of, 100.

German speculative Thought, 3, 10, 22, 25, 43; historical researches, 28, 59.

Gerund-grinding, 84.

Ghost, an authentic, 210.

God, the unslumbering, omnipresent, eternal, 42; God's presence manifested to our eyes and hearts, 52; an absentee God, 130.

Goethe's inspired melody, 202.

Good, growth and propagation of, 79.

Great Men, 142. See Man.

Gullibility, blessings of, 89.

Gunpowder, use of, 31, 144.


Habit, how, makes duUards of us all, 44.

Half-men, 147.

Happiness, the whim of, 152.

Hero-worship, the corner-stone of all Society, 201.

Heuschrecke and his biographic documents, 8; his loose, zigzag, thin-visaged character, 19; unaccustomed eloquence, and interminable documentary superfluities, 58; bewildered darkness, 237.

History, all-inweaving tissue of, 15; by what strange chances do we live in, 38; a perpetual Revelation, 142, 156, 202.

Homer's Iliad, 179.

Hope, this world emphatically the place of, 129; false shadows of, 148.

Horse, his own tailor, 43.


Ideal, the, exists only in the Actual 156, 158.

Imagination. See Fantasy.

Immortality, a glimpse of, 208.

Imposture, statistics of, 89.

Independence, foolish parade of, 186, 199.

Indifference, centre of, 136.

Infant intuitions and acquirements, 71; genius and dulness, 75.

Inspiration, perennial, 155, 167, 201.

Invention, 31, 127.

Invisible, the, Nature the visible Garment of, 43; invisible bonds, binding all Men together, 48; the Visible and Invisible, 52, 173.

Irish, the, Poor-Slave, 226.

Isolation, 86.


Jesus of Nazareth, our divinest Symbol, 178, 182.


King, our true, chosen for us in Heaven, 198.

Kingdom, a man's, 96.

Know thyself, and what thou canst work at, 132.


Labour, sacredness of, 181.

Land-owning, trade of, 102.

Language, the Garment of Thought, 57; dead vocables, 84.

Laughter, significance of, 25.

Lieschen, 18.

Life, Human, picture of, 15, 121, 136, 149; life-purpose, 107; speculative mystery of, 132, 191, 210; the most important transaction in, 135; nothingness of, 146, 147.

Light the beginning of all Creation, 157.

Logic-mortar and wordy Air-castles, 42; underground workshop of Logic, 53, 176.

Louis xv., ungodly age of, 131.

Love, what we emphatically name, 108;