Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ilosophers and critics had torn themto rags. His quarrel however was with the accidental embodiment,not with the spirit of the old creeds. The old morality was ingrainedin his very nature; nor was he shocked, like some of his fellows, bythe sternness of the Calvinistic views of the universe and life. Thewhole problem was with him precisely to save this living skeptics, he thought, were, in the German phrase, « emptying outthe baby with the bath.» They were at war with the spirit as wellas with the letter; trying to constru
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . ilosophers and critics had torn themto rags. His quarrel however was with the accidental embodiment,not with the spirit of the old creeds. The old morality was ingrainedin his very nature; nor was he shocked, like some of his fellows, bythe sternness of the Calvinistic views of the universe and life. Thewhole problem was with him precisely to save this living skeptics, he thought, were, in the German phrase, « emptying outthe baby with the bath.» They were at war with the spirit as wellas with the letter; trying to construct a Godless universe; to substi-tute a dead mechanism for the living organism; and therefore tokill down at the root every noble aspiration which could stimulatethe conscience, or strengthen a man to bear the spectacle of thewrongs and sufferings of mankind. The crisis of this struggle happened in 1821. After giving up theministry, Carlyle had tried «schoolmastering,» and found himself tobe least fitted of mankind for a function which demands patience. THOMAS CARLYLE.
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