Show CAUSTIC CARLYLE III conteh pt fur arnt lien wax subject to modification opinion of herbert spencer as the most unending ass in christen dom must of course be read in con junction with carlyle s derision for mankind in general mostly tools be cheerfully thought ot us all darwin I 1 we know he would not have at any price not a word ol 01 him cardinal iselman he estimated bad the brain of a medium sized rabbit was a bottle of soda water A bad young man was his sum up of adoth er eminent writer but these hostile phrases were subject to considerable modification if the man against whom they were aimed came near enough to carlyle to do him a personal favor even to pay him personal compliment whom be bad described as a mountebank dancing upon john bull 8 stomach of carlyle a baronetcy and elicited from him together with a refusal of the title many tributes to his mag lie said very little about henceforth in print and in private he emoke of him only as a very comical fellow london chronicle |