| Show CARLYLE A TRUE PESSIMIST any M movement olemon of 01 the he world toward better things was waa to him a step backward thomas carlyles friendship with ralph waldo emerson Is a matter ot of history but charles eliot norton tells in his newly published letters that carlyle marveled at the optimism of 0 the american philosopher writing in 1873 norton says As we were fitting together just after my coming in this afternoon carlyle spoke ot of emerson theres a gloat contrast between emerson and myself lie he seems verra content with life and takes much satisfaction is lu in the world especially in your country one would suppose to hear bear him that yo ye had no troubles there and no share in tho the darkness that hangs over these old lands its a verra st ln and curious spectacle to behold a man so BO confidently cheerful as emerson in these days well it may bo be as you say im not such a verra bloody minded old villain after all here a cordial laugh not quite so BO horrid an ogre as some good people imagine but the carld is verra black to me and I 1 see to be content with in this brand new patent society of ours theres bothin lo 10 0 o hope tor for from it but contusion confusion 1 I agree with ye in tb inkin that the times that are comin will be than ours and that by and by men may through long pain and distress learn to obey the law eternal ot of order without which there can be neither justice nor real happiness in this carld or in any other the last man in england who had real faith in it was oliver cromwell |
