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INDEX.

ACTION the true end of Man, 108, 111.
Actual, the, the true Ideal, 135, 136.
Adamitism, 39.

Afflictions, merciful, 133.
Ambition, 71.

Apprenticeships, 84.

Aprons, use and significance of, 29.
Art, all true Works of, symbolic, 154.

Baphometic Fire-baptism, 117.
Battle-field, a, 119.

Battle, Life-, our, 59; with Folly and Sin,
86, 88.

Being, the boundless Phantasmagoria of,
36.

Belief and Opinion, 134, 135.

Bible of Universal History, 122, 134.
Biography, meaning and uses of, 51; sig-
nificance of biographic facts, 139.
Blumine, 95; her environment, 96; cha-
racter, and relation to Teufelsdröckh,
97; blissful bonds rent asunder, 100;
on her way to England, 106.
Bolivar's Cavalry-uniform, 33.
Books, influence of, 119, 137.

Childhood, happy season of, 61; early in-
fluences and sports, 63.

Christian Faith, a good Mother's simple
version of the, 68; Temple of the, now
in ruins, 133; Passive-half of, 134.
Christian Love, 130, 132..

Church - Clothes, 147; living and dead
Churches, 148; the modern Church and
its Newspaper-Pulpits, 174.
Circumstances, influence of, 64.
Clergy, the, with their surplices and cas-
sock-aprons girt-on, 29, 145.

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,
23; Decoration the first purpose of
Clothes, 26; what Clothes have done
for us, and what they threaten to do,
27, 38; fantastic garbs of the Middle
Ages, 31; a simple costume, 33; tan-

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gible and mystic influences of Clothes,
34, 40; animal and human Clothing
contrasted, 37; a Court-Ceremonial mi-
nus Clothes, 41; necessity for Clothes,
43; transparent Clothes, 45; all Em-
blematic things are Clothes, 49, 187;
Genesis of the modern Clothes-Philo-
sopher, 55; Character and conditions
needed, 141, 143; George Fox's suit of
Leather, 144; Church-Clothes, 147; Old-
Clothes, 165; practical inferences, 188.
Codification, 46.

Combination, value of, 92, 204.

Commons, British House of, 28.
Concealment. See Secrecy.

Constitution, our invaluable British, 172.
Conversion, 136.

Courtesy, due to all men, 165.
Courtier, a luckless, 33.

Custom the greatest of Weavers, 179.

Dandy, mystic significance of the, 188;
dandy worship, 190; sacred books, 191:
articles of faith, 193; a dandy house,
hold, 197; tragically undermined by
growing Drudgery, 198.

Death, nourishment even in, 73, 116.
Devil, internecine war with the, 8, 82,
117, 127; cannot now so much as believe
in him, 115.

Dilettantes and Pedants, 47; patrons of
Literature, 87.

Diogenes, 146.

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

Drudgery contrasted with Dandyism, 193:
'Communion of Drudges,' and what
may come of it, 198.
Duelling, a picture of, 125.
Duty, no longer a divine Messenger and
Guide, but a false earthly Fantasm, 112,
113; infinite nature of, 135.

Editor's first acquaintance with Teufels
dröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes,
4: efforts to make known his discovery
to British readers, 5; admitted into the

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Teufelsdröckh watch-tower, 13, 22; first
feels the pressure of his task, 34; his
bulky Weissnichtwo Packet, 50; stre-
nuous efforts to evolve some historic
order out of such interminable docu-
mentary confusion, 54; partial success,
61, 69, 107; mysterious hints, 139, 162;
astonishment and hesitation, 172; con-
gratulations, 186; farewell, 202.
Education, influence of early, 64; insig-
nificant portion depending on Schools,
70; educational Architects, 73; the in-
spired Thinker, 157.

Emblems, all visible things, 49.
Emigration, 159.

character, 16; unaccustomed eloquence,
and interminable documentary super-
fluities, 51; bewildered darkness, 205.
History, all-inweaving tissue of, 13; by
what strange chances do we live in, 33;
a perpetual Revelation, 122, 133, 175.
Homer's Iliad, 155.

Hope, this world emphatically the place
of, 111; false shadows of, 128.
Horse, his own tailor, 37.

Ideal, the, exists only in the Actual, 135,

137:

Imagination. See Fantasy.
Immortality, a glimpse of, 181.

Eternity, looking through Time, 13, 50, Imposture, statistics of, 76.

154.

Evil, Origin of, 131.

Eyes and Spectacles, 47.

Facts, engraved Hierograms, for which
the fewest have the key, 140.
Faith, the one thing needful, 111.
Fantasy, the true Heaven-gate or Hell-
gate of man, 99, 152.
Fashionable Novels, 191.
Fatherhood, 58.

Feebleness, the true misery, 113.
Fire, and vital fire, 48, 118.
Force, universal presence of, 48.
Fortunatus' Wishing-hat, 180, 182.
Fox's, George, heavenward aspirations and
earthly independence, 144.
Fraser's Magazine, 6, 207.
Frederick the Great, symbolic glimpse of,
55.

Friendship, now obsolete, 81; an incre-
dible tradition, 114, 160; how it were
possible, 148, 204.
Futteral and his Wife, 55.
Future, organic filaments of the, 168.

Genius, the world's treatment of, 86.
German speculative Thought, 3, 9, 18, 21,
37; historical researches, 25, 51.
Gerund-grinding, 72.

Ghost, an authentic, 183.

God, the unslumbering, omnipresent, eter-
nal, 36; God's presence manifested to
our eyes and hearts, 44; an absentee
God, 112.

Goethe's inspired melody, 175.
Good, growth and propagation of, 68.
Great Men, 122. See Man.

Gullibility, blessings of, 77.

Gunpowder, use of, 27, 124.

Independence, foolish parade of, 161, 173.
Indifference, centre of, 117..

Infant intuitions and acquirements, 60;
genius and dulness, 64.
Inspiration, perennial, 134, 144, 175.
Invention, 26, 110.

Invisible, the, Nature the visible Garment
of, 37; invisible bonds, binding all Men
together, 41; the Visible and Invisible,

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Kingdom, a man's, 83.

Know thyself, and what thou canst work
at, 114.

Labour, sacredness of, 157.
Land-owning, trade of, 88.
Language, the Garment of Thought, 49;
dead vocables, 72.

Laughter, significance of, 22.
Lieschen, 15.

Life, Human, picture of, 13, 104, 118, 129;
life-purpose, 92; speculative mystery of,
114, 166, 183; the most important trans-
action in, 116; nothingness of, 126, 127.
Light the beginning of all Creation, 135.
Logic-mortar and wordy Air-castles, 36;
underground workshop of Logic, 46,

152.

Louis XV., ungodly age of, 113.

Love, what we emphatically name, 93;
pyrotechnic phenomena of, 93, 152; not
altogether a delirium, 99; how possible,
in its highest form, 131, 148, 204.

Habit, how, makes dullards of us all, 38. Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the,
Half-men, 127.

Happiness, the whim of, 131.
Hero-worship, the corner-stone of all So-
ciety, 174.

Heuschrecke and his biographic docu-
ments, 7; his loose, zigzag, thin-visaged

32, 124.

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Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 123.
Nature, the God-written Apocalypse of,
35, 44; not an Aggegate but a Whole,
48, 106, 169, 178; Nature alone antique,
71; sympathy with, 104, 123; the 'Liv-
ing Garment of God," 130; Laws of
Nature, 177.

Necessity, brightened into Duty, 67.
Newspaper Editors, 30; our Mendicant
Friars, 174.

Nothingness of life, 126.

Obedience, the lesson of, 68, 172.
Orpheus, 182.
Over-population, 156.

Own, conservation of a man's, 138.

Paradise and Fig-leaves, 25; prospective
Paradises, 93, 100.

Passivity and Activity, 67, 11I.

Past, the, inextricably linked with the
Present, 118; forever extant, 180.
Paupers, what to do with, 159.
Peace-Era, the much-predicted, 121.
Peasant Saint, the, 158.

Pelham, and the Whole Duty of Dandies,

192.

Perseverance, law of, 164.

Person, mystery of a, 44, 90, 92, 165.
Philosophies, Cause-and-Effect, 24.
Phoenix Death-birth, 164, 168, 186.
Property, 138.

Proselytising, 5, 204.

Radicalism, Speculative, 9, 19, 43.
Raleigh's, Sir Walter, fine mantle, 33.
Religion, dead letter and living spirit of,
80; weaving new vestures, 148, 191.
Reverence, early growth of, 68; indispen-
sability of, 173.
Richter, 22.

Saints, living Communion of, 170, 175-

Sarcasm, the panoply of, 90.

Sartor Resartus, genesis of, 5; its pur-
pose, 185.

Saturn or Chronos, 89.

Savage, the aboriginal, 26.

Scarecrow, significance of the, 42.
Sceptical goose-cackle, 46.

School education, insignificance of, 70, 72;
tin-kettle terrors and incitements, 71;
need of Soul-Architects, 73.

Science, the Torch of, 1; the Scientific
Head, 46.

Secrecy, benignant efficacies of, 150.
Self-activity, 18.

Self-annihilation, 128.

Shame, divine, mysterious growth of, 27;
the soil of all Virtue, 151.

Silence, 124; the element in which all
great things fashion themselves, 150.
Simon's, Saint, aphorism of the golden

uge, 163; a false application, 205.
Smoke, advantage of consuming one's,

104.

Society founded upon Cloth, 34, 41, 43;
how Society becomes possible, 148; so-
cial Death and New-Birth, 149, 163,
169, 186; as good as extinct, 160.
Solitude. See Silence.

Sorrow-pangs of Self-deliverance, 104, 110,
III; divine depths of Sorrow, 130; W01-
ship of Sorrow, 133.

Space and Time, the Dream-Canvas upon
which Life is imaged, 36, 44, 176, 185.
Spartan wisdom, 158.

Speculative intuition, 35. See German.
Speech, great, but not greatest, 151.
Sphinx-riddle, the Universe a, 88.
Stealing, 138, 158.

Stupidity, blessings of, 112
Style, varieties of, 49.
Suicide, 115.
Summary, 217.
Sunset, 63, 106.

Swallows, migrations and cooperative in-
stincts of, 66.

Swineherd, the, 64.

Symbols, 150; wondrous agency of, 151
extrinsic and intrinsic, 154; superan-
nuated, 156, 161.

Tailors, symbolic significance of, 200.
Temptations in the wilderness, 126.
Testimonies of Authors, 211.
Teufelsdröckh's Philosophy of Clothes, 4:
he proposes a toast, 9; his personal
aspect, and silent deepseated Sanscu-
lottism, 10; thawed into speech, 12;
memorable watch-tower utterances, 13
alone with the Stars, 15; extremely
miscellaneous environment, 15; plain-
ness of speech, 19; universal learning,
and multiplex literary style, 20 am-
biguous-looking morality, 21; one in-
stance of laughter, 22: almost total want

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of arrangement, 23; feeling of the lu-
dicrous, 32; speculative Radicalism, 43;
a singular Character, 51; Genesis pro-
perly an Exodus, 55; unprecedented
Name, 59; infantine experience, 60;
Pedagogy, 69; an almost Hindoo Pas-
sivity, 69; school-boy jostling, 71; he-
terogeneous University-Life, 75; fever-
paroxysms of Doubt, 79; first practical
knowledge of the English, 80; getting
under way, 82; ill success, 86; glimpse
of high-life, 87; casts himself on the
Universe, 92; reverent feeling towards
Women, 93; frantically in love, 94; first
interview with Blumine, 97; inspired
moments, 98; short of practical kitchen-
stuff, 101; ideal bliss, and actual cata-
strophe, 102; sorrows, and peripatetic
stoicism, 103; a parting glimpse of his
Beloved on her way to England, 106;
how he overran the whole earth, 107;
Doubt darkened into Unbelief, 111;
love of Truth, 113; a feeble unit, amidst
a threatening Infinitude, 114; Bapho-
metic Fire-baptism, 117: placid indiffer-
ence, 117; a Hyperborean intruder, 124;
Nothingness of life, 126; Temptations
in the wilderness, 126; dawning of a
better day, 129; the Ideal in the Actual,
135; finds his true Calling, 137; his
Biography a symbolic Adumbration,
significant to those who can decipher it,
139; a wonder-lover, seeker and worker,

144; in Monmouth-Street among the
Hebrews, 167; concluding hints, 203;
his public History not yet done, perhaps
the better part only beginning, 206.
Thinking Man, a, the worst enemy of
the Prince of Darkness, 83, 137; true
Thought can never die, 170.
Time-Spirit, life- battle with the, 59, 89:
Time, the universal wonder-hider, 182.
Titles of Honour, 171.

Tools, influence of, 27; the Pen, most
miraculous of tools, 137.

Unbelief, era of, 78, 112; Doubt darken-
ing into, 111; escape from, 127.
Universities, 76.

Utilitarianism, 111, 161.

View-hunting and diseased Self-conscious-

ness, 107.

Voltaire, 133; the Parisian Divinity, 174.

War, 118.
Wisdom, 45.

Woman's influence, 93.

Wonder the basis of Worship, 46; region
of, 187.

Words, slavery to, 36; Word-mongering
and Motive-grinding, 112.
Workshop of Life, 137. See Labour.

Young Men and Maidens, 88, 92.

THE END.

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