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 graves 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 discovers 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, 1836, 1837.
ACTION, the true end of Man,
Actual, the, the true Ideal, 178.
Adamitism, 51.
Afflictions, merciful, 174.
Ambition, 93.
Apprenticeships, 110.
Aprons, use and significance of,
37.
Art, all true Works of, sym-
Baphometic Fire-baptism, 153,
I 54.
Battlefield, a, 157.
Battle, Life-, our, 77; with Folly
and Sin, 112, 116.
Being, the boundless Phantas-
magoria of, 46.
Belief and Opinion, 176.
Bible of Universal History, 169,
176.
Biography, meaning and uses of,
67; significance of biographic
facts, 183.
Blumine, 125; her environment,
126; character and relation to
Teufelsdröckh, 127; blissful
bonds rent asunder, 134; on
her way to England, 140.
Bolivar's Cavalry-uniform, 43.
Books, influence of, 156, 180.
Childhood, happy season of, 80;
early influences and sports, 82.
Christian Faith, a good Mother's
simple version of the, 89;
Temple of the, now in ruins,
175; Passive-half of, 176.
Christian Love, 171, 174.
Church-Clothes, 194; living and
dead Churches, 195; the mod-
ern Church and its News-
paper-Pulpits, 229.
Circumstances, influence of, 84.
Clergy, the, with their surplices
and cassock-aprons girt-on, 38,
Clothes, not a spontaneous
growth of the human animal,
but an artificial device, 2; an-
alogy between the Costumes of
the body and the Customs of
the spirit, 30; Decoration the
first purpose of Clothes, 33;
what Clothes have done for
us, and what they threaten to
do, 35, 50; fantastic garbs of
the Middle Ages, 40; a sim-
ple costume, 43; tangible and
mystic influences of Clothes,
45, 53; animal and human
Clothing contrasted, 49; a
Court-Ceremonial minus
Clothes, 54; necessity for
Clothes, 56;
transparent
Clothes, 59; all Emblematic
things are Clothes, 64, 245;
Genesis of the modern Clothes-
Philosopher, 72; Character
and conditions needed, 186,
188; George Fox's suit of
Leather, 189; Church-Clothes,
194; Old-Clothes, 216; prac-
tical inferences, 246.
Codification, 60.
Combination, value of, 121, 267.
Commons, British House of, 36.
Concealment. See Secrecy.
Constitution, Our invaluable
British, 226.
Conversion, 179.
Courtesy, due to all men, 216.
Courtier, a luckless, 43.
Custom the greatest of Weav-
Dandy, mystic significance of
the, 247; dandy worship, 250;
sacred books, 251; articles of
faith, 253; a dandy household,
258; tragically undermined by
growing Drudgery, 259.
Death, nourishment even in, 96,
152.
Devil, internecine war with the,
10, 108, 154, 167; cannot now
so much as believe in him,
151.
Dilettantes and Pedants, 61;
patrons of Literature, 114.
Diogenes, 192.
Doubt can only be removed by
Action, 177. See Unbelief.
Drudgery contrasted with Dan-
dyism, 254; Communion of
Drudges' and what may come
of it, 259.
Duelling, a picture of, 164.
Duty, no longer a divine Mes-
senger and Guide, but a false
earthly Fantasm, 147, 149;
infinite nature of, 177.
Editor's first acquaintance with
Teufelsdröckh and his Phi-
losophy of Clothes, 5; efforts
to make known his discovery
to British readers, 6; admitted
into the Teufelsdröckh watch-
tower, 16, 28; first feels the
pressure of his task, 44; his
bulky Weissnichtwo Packet,
66;
strenuous efforts to
evolve some historic order
out of such interminable docu-
mentary confusion, 70; partial
success, 79, 90, 141; mysteri-
ous hints, 183, 213; astonish-
ment and hesitation, 226;
congratulations, 244; fare-
well, 265.
Education, influence of early, 84;
insignificant portion depend-
ing on Schools, 91; educa-
tional Architects, 95; the
inspired Thinker, 207.
Emblems, all visible things, 64.
Emigration, 209.
Eternity, looking through Time,
17, 65, 203.
Evil, Origin of, 172.
Eyes and Spectacles, 61.
Facts, engraved Hierograms, for
which the fewest have the
key, 184.
Genius, the world's treatment of,
113.
German speculative Thought,
3, II, 24, 27, 49; historical
researches, 32, 67.
Gerund-grinding, 95.
Ghost, an authentic, 240.
God, the unslumbering, omni-
present, eternal, 48; God's
presence manifested to our
eyes and hearts, 58; an ab-
sentee God, 147.
Goethe's inspired melody, 230.
Good, growth and propagation
of, 89.
Great Men, 161. See Man.
Gullibility, blessings of, 100.
Gunpowder, use of, 34, 164.
Habit, how, makes dullards of
us all, 50.
Half-men, 167.
Happiness, the whim of, 173.
Hero-worship, the corner-stone
of all Society, 228.
Heuschrecke and his biographic
documents, 8; his loose, zig-
zag, thin-visaged character, 21;
unaccustomed eloquence, and
interminable documentary su-
perfluities, 66; bewildered
darkness, 268.
History, all-inweaving tissue of,
18; by what strange chances
do we live in, 43; a perpetual
Revelation, 161, 176, 230.
Homer's Iliad, 204.
Hope, this world emphatically
the place of, 146;
shadows of, 169.
Horse, his own tailor, 49.
Ideal, the, exists only in the
Actual, 178, 180.
Imagination. See Fantasy.
Immortality, a glimpse of, 237.
Imposture, statistics of, 100.
Independence, foolish parade of,
Indifference, centre of, 154.
Ìnfant intuitions and acquire-
ments, 79; genius and dulness,
84.
Inspiration, perennial, 176, 189,
230.
Invisible, the, Nature the visible
Thought, 64; dead vocables,
95.
Laughter, significance of, 29.
Lieschen, 20.
Life, Human, picture of, 17, 137,
155, 170; Life-purpose, 121;
speculative mystery of, 150,
220, 240; the most important
transaction in, 153; nothing-
ness of, 166.
Light the beginning of all Crea-
tion, 178.
Logic-mortar and wordy Air-
castles, 47; underground
workshop of Logic, 60, 200.
Louis XV., ungodly age of, 148.
Love, what we emphatically
name, 122; pyrotechnic phe-
nomena of, 124, 201; not alto-
gether a delirium, 130; how
possible in its highest form,
171, 194, 267.
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