[10] Since 1868 the Reminiscences and his Life have been published which put this estimate of him beyond all doubt. It is much to be regretted that a certain theory, a certain irresistible tendency to arrange facts so as to prove preconceived notions, a tendency more dangerous and unhistorical even than direct suppression of the truth or invention of what is not true, should have ruined Carlyle’s biography. Professor Norton’s edition of the Reminiscences should be compared with Mr. Froude’s.[34a] Ethic pt. 1, def. 3.[34b] Ibid., pt. 1, def. 6.[34c] Ibid., pt. 1, prop. 11.[36] Ethic, pt. 2, prop. 47.[37a] Letter 56 (Van Vloten and Land’s ed.).[37b] Ethic, pt. 1, coroll. prop. 25.[37c] Ibid., pt. 5, prop. 24.[37d] Ibid., pt. 1, schol. to prop. 17.[38] Ethic, pt. 1, schol. to prop. 17.[39] Ethic, pt. 2, prop. 13.[40a] Ethic, pt. 1, coroll. 1, prop. 32.[40b] Ibid., pt. 1, prop. 33.[40c] Letter 56[41a] Letter 21.[41b] Letter 58.[42a] Ethic, pt. 2, schol. prop. 49.[42b] Ibid., pt. 4, coroll. prop. 63.[43a] Ethic, pt. 5, or pp. 42.[43b] “Agis being asked on a time how a man might continue free all his life; he answered, ‘By despising death.’” (Plutarch’s “Morals.” Laconic Apophthegms.)[43c] Ethic, pt. 5, schol. prop. 4.[44a] Ethic, pt. 4, coroll. prop. 64.[44b] Ibid., pt. 4, schol. prop. 66.[44c] Ibid., pt. 4, schol. prop. 50.[45a] Ethic, pt. 4, prop. 46 and schol.[45b] Ibid., pt. 3, schol. prop. 11.[46] Ethic, pt. 4, schol. prop. 45.[47] Ethic, pt. 5, props. 14–20.[50] Short Treatise, pt. 2, chap. 22.[52] Ethic, pt. 1, Appendix.[54] Ethic, pt. 2, schol. 2, prop. 40.[55a] Ethic, pt. 5, coroll. prop. 34.[55b] Ibid., pt. 5, prop. 36.[55c] Ibid., pt. 5, prop. 36, coroll.[56a] Ethic, pt. 5, prop. 38.[56b] Short Treatise, pt. 2, chap. 23.[57a] Aristotle’s Psychology (Wallace’s translation), p. 161.[57b] Rabelais, Pantagruel, book 4, chap. 27.[101] Hazlitt.[103] Italics mine.—M. R.[104a] Italics mine.—M. R.[104b] Italics mine.—M. R.[133] Poetry of Byron chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold—1881.[143] “Adah.—Peace be with him (Abel).

Cain.—But with me!”[180] My aunt Eleanor was thought to be a bit of a pagan by the evangelical part of our family. My mother when speaking of her to me used to say, “Your heathen aunt.” She was well-educated, but the better part of her education she received abroad after her engagement, which took place when she was eighteen years old. She was the only member of our family in the upper middle class. Her husband was Thomas Charteris, junior partner in a bank.