The Works of Thomas Carlyle/Volume 1/Index

INDEX TO SARTOR

Action the true end of Man, 126, 129.

Actual, the, the true Ideal, 156, 157.

Adamitism, 145.

Afflictions, merciful, 153.

Ambition, 83.

Apprenticeships, 97.

Aprons, use and significance of, 83.

Art, all true Works of, symbolic, 178.


Baphometic Fire-baptism, 136.

Battle-field, a, 139.

Battle, Life-, our, 69; with Folly and Sin, 99, 102.

Being, the boundless Phantasmagoria of, 41.

Belief and Opinions, 155, 156.

Bible of Universal History, 142, 155.

Biography, meaning and uses of, 60; significance of biographic facts, 161.

Blumine, 110; her environment. 111; character, and relation to Teufelsdröckh, 112; blissful bonds rent asunder, 115; on her way to England, 123.

Bolivar's Cavalry-uniform, 39.

Books, influence of, 138, 158.


Childhood, happy season of, 71; early influences and sports, 73.

Christian Faith, a good Mother's simple version of the, 79; Temple of the, now in ruins, 154; Passive-half of, 155.

Christian Love, 151, 153.

Church-Clothes, 170; living and dead Churches, 171; the modern Church and its Newspaper-Pulpits, 201.

Circumstances, influence of, 75.

Clergy, the, with their surplices and cassock-aprons girt-on, 34, 167.

Clothes, not a spontaneous growth of the human animal, but an artificial device, 2; analogy between the Costumes of the body and the Customs of the spirit, 27; Decoration the first purpose of Clothes, 30; what Clothes have done for us, and what they threaten to do, 31, 45; fantastic garbs of the Middle Ages, 36; a simple costume, 37; tangible and mystic influences of Clothes, 38, 47; animal and human Clothing contrasted, 43; a Court-Ceremonial minus Clothes, 48; necessity for Clothes, 50; transparent Clothes, 52; all Emblematic things are Clothes, 57, 215; genesis of the modern Clothes-Philosopher, 64; Character and conditions needed, 162, 165; George Fox's suit of Leather, 168; Church-Clothes, 170; Old-Clothes, 190; practical inferences, 216.

Codification, 63.

Combination, value of, 107, 235.

Commons, British House of, 33.

Concealment. See Secrecy.

Constitution, our invaluable British, 198.

Conversion, 158.

Courtesy, due to all men, 190.

Courtier, a luckless, 38.

Custom the greatest of Weavers, 206.


Dandy, mystic significance of the, 217; dandy worship, 219; sacred books, 220; articles of faith, 222; a dandy household, 226; tragically undermined by growing Drudgery, 227.

Death, nourishment even in, 85, 134.

Devil, internecine war with the, 10, 95, 136, 147; cannot now so much as believe in him, 134.

Dilettantes and Pedants, 55; patrons of Literature, 101.

Diogenes, 168.

Doubt can only be removed by Action, 157. See Unbelief.

Drudgery contrasted with Dandyism, 223; 'Communion of Drudges,' and what may come of it, 227.

Duelling, a picture of, 144.

Duty, no longer a divine Messenger and Guide, but a false earthly Fantasm, 130, 131; infinite nature of, 155.


Editor's first acquaintance with Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes, 5; efforts to make known his discovery to British readers, 7; admitted into the 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; pyrotechnic phenomena of, 108, 176; not altogether a delirium, 115; how possible, in its highest form, 153, 171, 235.

Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the, 38, 144.


Magna Charta, 215.

Malthus's over-population panic, 180.

Man, by nature naked, 2, 44, 49; essentially a tool-using animal, 32; the true Shekinah, 52; a divine Emblem, 57, 174, 177, 190, 212; two men alone honourable, 181. See Thinking Man.

Metaphors the stuff of Language, 57.

Metaphysics inexpressibly unproductive, 42, 54.

Milton, 131.

Miracles, significance of, 203, 209.

Monmouth-Street, and its "Ou' clo'" Angels of Doom, 193.

Mother's, a, religious influence, 79.

Motive-Millwrights, 176.

Mountain scenery, 122.

Mystery, all-pervading domain of, 54.


Nakedness and hypocritical Clothing, 44, 50; a naked Court-Ceremonial, 48; a naked Duke addressing a naked House of Lords, 49.

Names, significance and infiuence of, 68, 207.

Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 142.

Nature, the God-written Apocalypse of, 41, 62; not an Aggegate but a Whole, 55, 123, 196, 205; Nature alone antique, 84; sympathy with, 121, 143; the 'Living Garment of God,' 150; Laws of Nature, 204.

Necessity, brightened into Duty, 78.

Newspaper Editors, 35; our Mendicant Friars, 201.

Nothingness of life, 146.


Obedience, the lesson of, 79, 198.

Orpheus, 209.

Over-population, 180.

Own, conservation of a man's, 159.


Paradise and Fig-leaves, 29; prospective Paradises, 108, 116.

Passivity and Activity, 78, 129.

Past, the, inextricably linked with the Present 136,; for ever extant, 207.

Paupers, what to do with, 183.

Peace-Era, the much-predicted, 140.

Peasant Saint, the, 182.

Pelham, and the Whole Duty of Dandies, 222.

Perseverance, law of, 189.

Person, mystery of a, 61, 107, 109, 190.

Philosophies, Cause-and-Efltect, 28.

Phœnix Death-birth, 189, 194, 214.

Property, 159.

Proselytising, 6, 235.


Badicalism, Speculative, 10, 22, 60, 199.

Raleigh's, Sir Walter, fine mantle, 38.

Religion, dead letter and living spirit of, 92; weaving new vestures, 171, 220.

Reverence, early growth of, 79; indispensability of, 200.

Richter, 25.


Saints, living Communion of, 197, 202.

Sarcasm, the panoply of, 104.

Sartor Resartus, genesis of, 8; its purpose, 213.

Saturn or Chronos, 103.

Savage, the aboriginal, 30.

Scarecrow, significance of the, 49.

Sceptical goose-cackle, 54.

School education, insignificance of, 83, 84; tin-kettle terrors and incitements, 83; need of Soul-Architects, 85.

Science, the Torch of, 1; the Scientific Head, 53.

Secrecy, benignant efficacies of, 174.

Self-activity, 21.

Self-annihilation, 149.

Shame, divine, mysterious growth of, 31; the soil of all Virtue, 174.

Silence, 143; the element in which all great things fashion themselves, 174.

Simon's, Saint, aphorism of the golden age, 188; a false application, 237.

Smoke, advantage of consuming one's, 120.

Society founded upon Cloth, 40, 48, 50; how Society becomes possible, 171; social Death and New-Birth, 172, 188, 195, 214; as good as extinct, 184.

Solitude. See Silence.

Sorrow-pangs of Self-deliverance, 121, 127, 128; divine depths of Sorrow, 151; Worship of Sorrow, 154.

Space and Time, the Dream-Canvas upon which Life is imaged, 42, 51, 204, 207.

Spartan wisdom, 183.

Speculative intuition, 40. See German.

Speech, great, but not greatest, 174.

Sphinx-riddle, the Universe a, 102.

Stealing, 159, 182.

Stupidity, blessings of, 130.

Style, varieties of, 57.

Suicide, 133.

Sunset, 74, 123.

Swallows, migrations and coöperative instincts of, 76.

Swineherd, the, 74.

Symbols, 173; wondrous agency of, 174; extrinsic and intrinsic, 177; superannuated, 179, 185.


Tailors, symbolic significance of, 230.

Temptations in the wilderness, 146.

Testimonies of Authors, 241.

Teufelsdröckh's Philosophy of Clothes, 5; he proposes a toast, 11; bis personal aspect, and silent deepseated Sansculottism, 12; thawed into speech, 14; memorable watch-tower utterances, 15; alone with the Stars, 17; extremely miscellaneous environment, 18; plainness of speech, 22; universal learning, and multiplex literary style, 23: ambiguous-looking morality, 24; one instance of laughter, 25; almost total want of arrangement, 26; feeling of the ludicrous, 38; speculative Radicalism, 50; a singular Character, 61; Genesis properly an Exodus, 64; unprecedented Name, 69; infantine experience, 70; Pedagogy, 80; an almost Hindoo Passivity, 80; school-boy jostling, 83; heterogeneous University-Life, 88; fever-paroxysms of Doubt, 92; first practical knowledge of the English, 93; getting under way, 95; ill success, 100; glimpse of high-life, 101; casts himself on the Universe, 107; reverent feeling towards Women, 108; frantically in love, 110; first interview with Blumine, 112; inspired moments, 114; short of practical kitchen-stuff, 116; ideal bliss, and actual catastrophe, 118; sorrows, and peripatetic stoicism, 119; a parting glimpse of his Beloved on her way to England, 123; how he overran the whole earth, 124; Doubt darkened into Unbelief, 129; love of Truth, 131; a feeble unit, amidst a threatening Infinitude, 132; Baphometic Fire-baptism, 135; placid indifference, 136; a Hyperborean intruder, 144; Nothingness of life, 146; Temptations in the wilderness, 146; dawning of a better day, 149; the Ideal in the Actual, 156; finds his true Calling, 158; his Biography a symbolic Adumbration, significant to those who can decipher it, 160; a wonder-lover, seeker and worker, 166; in Monmouth-Street among the Hebrews, 192; concluding hints, 233; his public History not yet done, perhaps the better part only beginning, 237.

Thinking Man, a, the worst enemy of the Prince of Darkness, 96, 158; true Thought can never die, 196.

Time-Spirit, life-battle with the, 69, 103; Time, the universal wonder-hider, 209;

Titles of Honour, 198.

Tools, influence of, 32; the Pen, most miraculous of tools, 158.


Unbelief, era of, 91, 119; Doubt darkening into, 158; escape from, 147.

Universities, 88.

Utilitarianism, 128, 186.


View-hunting and diseased Self-consciousness, 124.

Voltaire, 134; the Parisian Divinity, 200.


War, 138.

Wisdom, 52.

Woman's influence, 108.

Wonder the basis of Worship, 53; region of, 54.

Words, slavery to, 42; Word-mongering and Motive-grinding, 130.

Workshop of Life, 158. See Labour.


Young Men and Maidens, 102, 104.



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