Show A erasters Maat cra conception froude has admirably described the spirit in which carlyle views the revolution the spirit of a hebrew prophet discerning divine divido retribution on ill doing g and carlyle himself styles it in in a letter to sterling a wild savage book itself a kind of french revolution it has come hot out of my iny ovin ova son eon born in blackness whirlwind und and sorrow he thought it had bad probably no chance chanca of being liked by any existing class of british meu men but it speedily achieved popularity mill described it in in this review as one of those works of genius which are above all rules and are a law to themselves while kingsley says no book always excepting milton so quickened and exalted my poetical view of man aud and liis his history as that great prose poem tho the single epic of modern days thomas carlyles Carly los french Ro revolution volition westminster review |