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" a Liberal or Radical." He was a fervid believer in 

 religion (in his own way truly see Sartor Eesartus) ; 

 and yet, for the public in general, he was simply to be 

 called an infidel. He was most determinedly in himself 

 the adherent of ideas, permanent and fixed ; while to his 

 enlightened admirers he knew far too much about the 

 relativity of fancies for that. These same enlightened 

 admirers, despite his own perpetual, most characteristic 

 and peculiar cries, insisted on making him, too, only an 

 abstract. And, for the abstracts, there is no such thing 

 in existence as a concrete a concrete in its own right, 

 intrinsic, with its own sphere of immanent manifestation 

 and concerted work. On the contrary, for them, all is 

 extrinsic, relative, abstract, the result only of opinion, 

 casual association. For such men there is no Ansich, 

 only a Svynfiiranderes no truth, only an individual 

 fancy. Carlyle was assuredly the opposite of all that. 



