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Carlyle, I say, had sounded these depths that lie 

 beyond the region of will and choice, beyond the 

 sphere of man's moral accountability ; but in life, in 

 action, in conduct, no man shall take shelter here. 

 One may summon his philosophy when he is beaten 

 in battle, and not till then. You shall not shirk the 

 hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed 

 Eternities. " The times are bad ; very well, you are 

 there to make them better." " The public highways 

 ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating 

 that motion is impossible." (" Chartism.") 



m. 



CAROLINE Fox, in her " Memoirs of Old Friends," 

 reports a smart saying about Carlyle, current in her 

 time, which has been current in some form or other 

 ever since, namely, that he had a large capital of 

 faith uninvested, carried it about him as ready 

 money, I suppose, working capital. It is certainly 

 true that it was not locked up in any of the various 

 social and religious safe deposits. He employed a 

 vast deal of it in his daily work. It took not a little 

 to set Cromwell up, and Frederick. Indeed, it is 

 doubtful if among his contemporaries there was a 

 man with so active a faith so little invested in 

 paper securities. His religion, as a present living 

 reality, went with him into every question. He did 

 not believe that the Maker of this universe had re- 



