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discover, and conform to! Industrial Colonels, Workmasters,
Task-masters, Life-commanders, equitable as Rhadamanthus and
inflexible as he: such, I perceive, you do need; and such, you
being once put under law as soldiers are, will be discoverable
for you. I perceive, with boundless alarm, that I shall have to
set about discovering such,--I, since I am at the top of affairs,
with all men looking to me. Alas, it is my new task in this New
Era; and God knows, I too,
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
hitherto, am far behind with it! But street-barricades rise
everywhere: the hour of Fate has come. In Connemara there has
sprung a leak, since the potato died; Connaught, if it were not
for Treasury-grants and rates-in-aid, would have to recur to
Cannibalism even now, and Human Society would cease to pretend
that it existed there. Done this thing must be. Alas, I
perceive that if I cannot do it, then surely I shall die, and
perhaps shall not have Christian burial! But I already...
Carlyle, Thomas
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Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian faith. Nevertheless Calvinist values remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order.
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