'The Editors have been induced, by the express desire of many persons, to collect the following sheets out of the ephemeral pamphlets in which they first appeared, under the conviction that they contain in themselves the assurance of a longer date.
'The Editors have no expectation that this little Work will have a sudden and general popularity. They will not undertake, as there is no need, to justify the gay costume in which the Author delights to dress his thoughts, or the German idioms with which he has sportively sprinkled his pages. It is his humour to advance the gravest speculations upon the gravest topics in a quaint and burlesque style. If his masquerade offend any of his audience, to that degree that they will not hear what he has to say, it may chance to draw others to listen to his wisdom; and what work of imagination can hope to please all? But we will venture to remark that the distaste excited by these peculiarities in some readers is greatest at first, and is soon forgotten; and that the foreign dress and aspect of the Work are quite superficial, and cover a genuine Saxon heart. We believe, no book has been published for many years, written in a more sincere style of idiomatic English, or which dicovers an equal mastery over all the riches of the language. The Author makes ample amends for the occasional eccentricity of his genius, not only by frequent bursts of pure splendour, but by the wit and sense which never fail him.
But what will chiefly commend the Book to the discerning reader is the manifest design of the work, which is, a Criticism upon the Spirit of the Age-we had almost said, of the hour-in which we live; exhibiting in the most just and novel light the present aspects of Religion, Politics, Literature, Arts, and Social Life. Under all his gaiety the Writer has an earnest meaning, and discovers an insight into the manifold wants and tendencies of human nature, which is very rare among our popular authors. The philanthropy and the purity of moral sentiment, which inspire the work, will find their way to the heart of every lover of virtue.'-Preface to Sartor Resartus: Boston, 1835, 1837.
1 Fraser's (London) Magazine, 1833-4
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; sig- nificance of biographic facts, 161. Blumine, 110; her environment, 111; cha- racter, 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 in- fluences 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 cas- sock-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; tan-
gible and mystic influences of Clothes, 38, 47; animal and human Clothing contrasted, 43; a Court-Ceremonial mi- nus Clothes, 48; necessity for Clothes, 50; transparent Clothes, 52; all Em- blematic things are Clothes, 57, 215; genesis of the modern Clothes-Philo- sopher, 64; Character and conditions needed, 162, 165; George Fox's suit of Leather, 168; Church-Clothes, 170; Old- Clothes, 190; practical inferences, 216. Codification, 53.
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 house- hold, 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 be- lieve 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 Teufels- dröckh 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; stre- nuous efforts to evolve some historic order out of such interminable docu- mentary confusion, 62; partial success, 71, 80, 124; mysterious hints, 161, 187; astonishment and hesitation, 172; con- gratulations, 214; farewell, 233. Education, influence of early, 75; insig- nificant portion depending on Schools, 81; educational Architects, 84; the in- spired 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, 129. 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 fire, 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 incre- dible 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 dullards 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 docu- ments, 8; his loose, zigzag, thin-vis- aged character, 19; unaccustomed elo- quence, 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,
Louis xv., ungodly age of, 131.
Love, what we emphatically name, 108;
pyrotechnic phenomena of, 108, 176; not altogether a delirium, 115; how pos- sible, in its highest form, 153, 171, 235. Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the, 38, 144.
Malthus's over-population panic, 180. Man, by nature naked, 2, 44, 49; essen- tially a tool-using animal, 32; the true Shekinah, 52; a divine Emblem, 57, 174, 177, 190, 212; two men alone honour- able, 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' olo"" 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 influence of, 68, 207.
Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 142. Nature, the God-written Apocalypse of, 41, 52; not an Aggegate but a Whole, 55, 123, 196, 205; Nature alone antique, 84; sympathy with, 121, 143; the 'Liv- ing 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,
Perseverance, law of, 189.
Person, mystery of a. 51, 107, 109, 190.
Saints, living Communion of, 197, 202. Sarcasm, the panoply of, 104. Sartor Resartus, genesis of, 8; its pur pose, 213.
Saturn or Chronos, 103. Savage, the aboriginal, 30. Scarecrow, significance of the, 49. Sceptical goose-cackle, 54.
School education, insignificance of, 82, 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,
extrinsic and intrinsic, 177; superan- nuated, 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; his personal aspect, and silent deepseated Sanscu- lottism, 12; thawed into speech, 14; memorable watch-tower utterances, 15; alone with the Stars, 17; extremely miscellaneous environment, 18; plain- ness of speech, 22; universal learning, and multiplex literary style, 23: am- biguous-looking morality, 24; one in- stance of laughter, 25; almost total want of arrangement, 26; feeling of the lu- dicrous, 38; speculative Radicalism, 50; a singular Character, 61; Genesis pro- perly an Exodus, 64; unprecedented Name, 69; infantine experience, 70; Pedagogy, 80; an almost Hindoo Pas- sivity, 80; school-boy jostling, 83; he- terogeneous 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; in- spired 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 In- finitude, 132; Baphometic Fire-baptism,
135; placid indifference, 136; a Hyper- borean intruder, 144; Nothingness of life, 146; Temptations in the wilder. ness, 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.
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