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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

"How decipher, with best fidelity, the eternal regulation of the Universe? All the world answers me, ‘Count heads; ask Universal Suffrage, by the ballot-boxes, and that will tell.’
Well, — I perceive we have got into strange spiritual latitudes indeed. Within the last half-century or so, either the Universe or else the heads of men must have altered very much."

— Thomas Carlyle, The Century (1850). (via janwire)
Reactionary poster from Radish magazine “Carlyle Rising : A Poster Campaign”

Reactionary poster from Radish magazine “Carlyle Rising : A Poster Campaign”

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peninsularian: Thomas Carlyle / Julia Margaret Cameron 1867 Albumen print

peninsularian:

Thomas Carlyle / Julia Margaret Cameron 1867

Albumen print

amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 4 December Happy Birthday, Thomas Carlyle, born 4 December 1795, died 5 February 1881 Thomas Carlyle: 10 Literary Quotes What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Writing is a dreadful labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. Let each become all that he was created capable of being. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world’s Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.  Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian, and teacher during the Victorian era. He became a controversial social commentator.He was raised in a strict Calvinist family and expected to become a preacher. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his faith but not his ethics. He became a leading moral force in Victorian literature. His best works include The French Revolution and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. by Amanda Patterson From Writers Write

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 4 December

Happy Birthday, Thomas Carlyle, born 4 December 1795, died 5 February 1881

Thomas Carlyle: 10 Literary Quotes

  1. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
  2. Writing is a dreadful labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
  3. Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
  4. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
  5. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
  6. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
  7. A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
  8. In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world’s Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
  9. Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
  10. The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 

Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian, and teacher during the Victorian era. He became a controversial social commentator.
He was raised in a strict Calvinist family and expected to become a preacher. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his faith but not his ethics. He became a leading moral force in Victorian literature. His best works include The French Revolution and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.

by Amanda Patterson

From Writers Write

"…all that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing,—teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge … is the Books themselves! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. The true University of these days is a Collection of Books."

— Thomas Carlyle, via The Underground Grammarian (via bookofpythia)

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"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men."

— Thomas Carlyle (via afourforty)

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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all."

— Thomas Carlyle, Essays On Goethe
 
 


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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

— Thomas Carlyle (via mickyates)

phantasmagorical:

Carlyle, on the Malthusian hope that people would through continence keep the population level in line with resources:

Smart Sally in our alley proves all-too fascinating to brisk Tom in yours: can Tom be called on to make pause, and calculate the demand for labour in the British Empire first? … O wonderful Mathusian prophets! Millenniums are undoubtedly coming, must come one way or the other: but will it be, think you, by twenty millions of working people simultaneously striking work in that department … ?

from Richard D. Altick, Victorian People and Ideas, p. 121

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