Studies in literature . hings of the sense, the world of affairs. ThomasCarlyle was the great preacher of the things of the spirit,of the world of ideals. Macaulay was preeminently a man of affairs, a man of themost brilliant intellectual powers, but of meager was a member of parliament, a wit, an orator, an essayist,an historian. He was eminently practical, ready to acceptthings as they were and make the best of them. His interestwas primarily in politics and government, and in commerceand industry. His chief reliance in life was on ballot-boxesand machinery. He is a typical e
Studies in literature . hings of the sense, the world of affairs. ThomasCarlyle was the great preacher of the things of the spirit,of the world of ideals. Macaulay was preeminently a man of affairs, a man of themost brilliant intellectual powers, but of meager was a member of parliament, a wit, an orator, an essayist,an historian. He was eminently practical, ready to acceptthings as they were and make the best of them. His interestwas primarily in politics and government, and in commerceand industry. His chief reliance in life was on ballot-boxesand machinery. He is a typical exponent of the practicaland purely intellectual side of nineteenth-century life. Macaulays Prose Works. — With the exception of TheLays of Ancient Rome — celebrations in verse of the ancientcivic virtues of the Romans — Macaulays literary work wasalmost exclusively in prose. His literary fame began withthe essay on Milton, published in The Edinburgh Review in1825. Other literary essays are those on Addison, Bacon,. Thomas Carlyle. After the portrait by James McNeil Whistler. THE VICTORIAN ERA 293 and Dr. Johnson, all of whom interested him hirgely becausethey were in touch with practical everyday life. Among hisessays and addresses on public men, the most irn])ortantare those on William Pitt, Lord Clive, and Warren are remarkable for clear statements, apt illustrations,skillful emphases, strong contrasts, striking antitheses,rapid and graphic narration. Biography and history werehis specialties, and he brought to them a breadth of readingand a power of memory rarely surpassed. His most extensivework. The History of England from the Accession of James II,only five volumes of which were completed, shows Macaulaysprejudices, and is full of exaggerations; yet, because of itsclear and brilliant style, it took hold of the public like a , it was Macaulays conscious purpose to appeal tothe novel reading public. Carlyles Philosophy of Life. — The work o
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