INDEX
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L M
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Q R S
T U V
W Y Z
- Abdallah, father of Mahomet, 286
- Abelard, theology of, 389
- Abu Thaleb, uncle of Mahomet, 286, 387, 294
- Action the true end of Man, 119, 121
- Actual, the, the true Ideal, 148, 149
- Adamitism, 43
- Afflictions, merciful, 145
- Agincourt, Shakspeare’s battle of, 341
- Alexis, Luther’s friend, his sudden death, 359
- Ali, young, Mahomet’s kinsman and convert, 293
- Allegory, the sportful shadow of earnest faith, 243, 267
- Ambition, Fate’s appendage of, 78;
- Apprenticeships, 92
- Aprons, use and significance of, 31
- Arabia and the Arabs, 282, 310
- Art, all true Works of, symbolic, 163
- Balder, the white Sungod, 255, 271
- Baphometic Fire-baptism, 128
- Barebone’s Parliament, 456
- Battle-field, a, 131
- Battle, Life-, our, 65;
- Being, the boundless Phantasmagoria of, 39
- Belief and Opinion, 146, 147
- Belief, the true god-announcing miracle, 292, 311, 375, 401;
- war of, 430.
- See Religion, Scepticism.
- Benthamism, 309, 400
- Bible of Universal History, 134, 146
- Biography, meaning and uses of, 56;
- significance of biographic facts, 152
- Blumine, 104;
- Bolivar’s Cavalry-uniform, 37
- Books, miraculous influence of, 130, 149, 388, 392;
- our modern University, Church and Parliament, 390
- Boswell, his reverence for Johnson, 410
- Banyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, 244
- Burns, Gilbert, 417
- Burns, Robert, his birth, and humble heroic parents, 415;
- Caabah, the, with its Black Stone and Sacred Well, 284, 285
- Canopus, the worship of, 247
- Charles I. fatally incapable of being dealt with, 439
- Childhood, happy season of, 68;
- early influences and sports, 69
- China, literary governors of, 397
- Christian Faith, a good Mother’s simple version of the, 75;
- Christian Love, 143, 145
- Church. See Books.
- Church-Clothes, 161;
- Circumstances, influence of, 71
- Clergy, the, with their surplices and cassock-aprons girt-on, 32, 158
- Clothes, not a spontaneous growth of the human animal, but an artificial device, 2;
- analogy between the Costumes of the body and the Customs of the spirit, 25;
- Decoration the first purpose of Clothes, 28;
- what Clothes have done for us, and what they threaten to do, 30, 43;
- fantastic garbs of the Middle Ages, 34;
- a simple costume, 35;
- tangible and mystic influences of Clothes, 36, 45;
- animal and human Clothing contrasted, 41;
- a Court-Ceremonial minus Clothes, 45;
- necessity for Clothes, 47;
- transparent Clothes, 49;
- all Emblematic things are Clothes, 54, 203;
- Genesis of the modern Clothes-Philosopher, 61;
- Character and conditions needed, 153, 156;
- George Fox’s suit of Leather, 159;
- Church-Clothes, 161;
- Old-Clothes, 179;
- practical inferences, 203
- Codification, 50
- Combination, value of, 101, 221
- Commons, British House of, 31
- Concealment. See Secrecy.
- Constitution, our invaluable British, 187
- Conversion, 149
- Courtesy, due to all men, 179
- Courtier, a luckless, 36
- Cromwell, 430;
- his hypochondria, 437, 442;
- early marriage and conversion, 437;
- an industrious farmer, 438;
- his victories and participation in the King’s death, 439;
- practicalness of, 440;
- his Ironsides, 440;
- his speeches, 444, 459;
- his ‘ambition’ and such-like, 446;
- a ‘Fanatic,’ but gradually became a ‘Hypocrite,’ 452;
- his dismissal of the Rump Parliament, 456;
- Protectorship and Parliamentary Futilities, 457;
- his last days, and closing sorrows, 460
- Custom the greatest of Weavers, 194
- Dandy, mystic significance of the, 204;
- Dante and his Book, 318;
- biography in his Book, and Portrait, 319;
- his birth, education and early career, 319, 320;
- his love for Beatrice Portinari, 320;
- unhappy marriage, 320;
- banishment, 321;
- uncourtier-like ways of, 321;
- his Divina Commedia genuinely a song, 322;
- the Unseen World, as figured in the Christianity of the Middle Ages, 329;
- the ‘uses’ of Dante, 332
- David, the Hebrew King, 281
- Death, nourishment even in, 81, 127
- Della Scala, the court of, 321
- Devil, internecine war with the, 9, 90, 128, 139;
- cannot now so much as believe in him, 127
- Dilettantes and Pedants, 52;
- patrons of Literature, 96
- Diodorus Siculus, 284
- Diogenes, 159
- Divine Right of Kings, 424
- Doubt can only be removed by Action, 147.
- See Unbelief.
- Drudgery contrasted with Dandyism, 210;
- ‘Communion of Drudges,’ and what may come of it, 214
- Duelling, a picture of, 136
- Duty, no longer a divine Messenger and Guide, but a false earthly Fantasm, 122, 123;
- Edda, the Scandinavian, 253
- Editor’s first acquaintance with Teufelsdröckh and his Philosophy of Clothes, 4;
- efforts to make known his discovery to British readers, 7;
- admitted into the Teufelsdröckh watch-tower, 14, 25;
- first feels the pressure of his task, 37;
- his bulky Weissnichtwo Packet, 55;
- strenuous efforts to evolve some historic order out of such interminable documentary confusion, 59;
- partial success, 67, 76, 117;
- mysterious hints, 152, 177;
- astonishment and hesitation, 163;
- congratulations, 201;
- farewell, 219
- Education, influence of early, 71;
- Eighteenth Century, the sceptical, 398, 404, 433
- Eisleben, the birthplace of Luther, 358
- Eliot, 433, 434
- Elizabethan Era, the, 334
- Emblems, all visible things, 54
- Emigration, 173
- Eternity, looking through Time, 15, 55, 168
- Evil, Origin of, 143
- Eyes and Spectacles, 51
- Facts, engraved Hierograms, for which the fewest have the key, 153
- Faith, the one thing needful, 122
- Fantasy, the true Heaven-gate or Hell-gate of man, 109, 165
- Fashionable Novels, 208
- Fatherhood, 65
- Faults, his, not the criterion of any man 281
- Feebleness, the true misery, 124
- Fichte’s theory of literary men, 385
- Fire, and vital fire, 53, 129;
- miraculous nature of, 254
- Force, universal presence of, 53
- Forms, necessity for, 431
- Fortunatus’ Wishing-hat, 195, 197
- Fox’s, George, heavenward aspirations and earthly independence, 159
- Fraser’s Magazine, 6, 227
- Frederick the Great, symbolic glimpse of, 61
- Friendship, now obsolete, 89;
- Frost. See Fire.
- Futteral and his Wife, 61
- Future, organic filaments of the, 183
- Genius, the world’s treatment of, 94
- German speculative thought, 2, 9, 20, 24, 41;
- Gerund-grinding, 80
- Ghost, an authentic, 198
- Giotto, his portrait of Dante, 319
- God, the unslumbering, omnipresent, eternal, 40;
- Goethe’s inspired melody, 190;
- ‘characters,’ 337;
- notablest of literary men, 386
- Good, growth and propagation of, 75
- Graphic, secret of being, 325
- Gray’s misconception of Norse lore, 270
- Great Men, 134.
- See Man.
- Grimm the German Antiquary, and Odin, 260
- Gullibility, blessings of, 84
- Gunpowder, use of, 29, 136
- Habit, how, makes dullards of us all, 42
- Hagar, the Well of, 284, 285
- Half-men, 139
- Hampden, 433, 434
- Happiness, the whim of, 144
- Hegira, the, 295
- Heroes, Universal History of the united biographies of, 139, 266;
- Hero-worship, the corner-stone of all Society, 189;
- Heuschrecke and his biographic documents, 7;
- History, all-inweaving tissue of, 15;
- Homer’s Iliad, 169
- Hope, this world emphatically the place of, 122;
- false shadows of, 140
- Horse, his own tailor, 41
- Hutchinson and Cromwell, 433, 460
- Iceland, the home of Norse Poets, 253
- Ideal, the, exists only in the Actual, 148, 149
- Idolatry, 351;
- criminal only when insincere, 353
- Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, 257, 334
- Imagination. See Fantasy.
- Immortality, a glimpse of, 196
- Imposture, statistics of, 84
- Independence, foolish parade of, 175, 188
- Indifference, centre of, 128
- Infant intuitions and acquirements, 68;
- genius and dulness, 71
- Inspiration, perennial, 147, 157, 190
- Intellect, the summary of man’s gifts, 338, 397
- Invention, 29, 120
- Invisible, the, Nature the visible Garment of, 41;
- Irish, the, Poor-Slave, 213
- Islam, 291
- Isolation, 81
- Jesus of Nazareth, our divinest Symbol, 168, 171
- Job, the Book of, 284
- Johnson’s difficulties, poverty, hypochondria, 405, 406;
- Jötuns, 254, 272
- Julius the Second, Pope, 361
- Kadijah, the good, Mahomet’s first Wife, 288, 292
- King, our true, chosen for us in Heaven, 187;
- Kingdom, a man’s, 91
- Know thyself, and what thou canst work at, 124
- Knox’s influence on Scotland, 374;
- Koran, the, 298
- Koreish, the, Keepers of the Caabah, 293, 294, 354
- Kranach’s portrait of Luther, 372
- Labour, sacredness of, 171
- Ladrones Islands, what the natives of, thought regarding Fire, 254
- Lamaism, Grand, 242
- Land-owning, trade of, 96
- Language, the Garment of Thought, 54;
- dead vocables, 80
- Laughter, significance of, 24
- Leo X., the elegant Pagan Pope, 363
- Liberty and Equality, 357, 428
- Lieschen, 17
- Life, Human, picture of, 14, 115, 129, 141;
- Light the beginning of all Creation, 148
- Literary Men, 383;
- in China, 397
- Literature, chaotic condition of, 387;
- not our heaviest evil, 398
- Logic-mortar and wordy Air-Castles, 40;
- Louis XV., ungodly age of, 123
- Love, what we emphatically name, 102;
- Ludicrous, feeling and instances of the, 36, 136
- Luther’s birth and parentage, 358;
- hardship and rigorous necessity;
- death of his friend Alexis, 359;
- becomes a monk;
- his religious despair;
- finds a Bible, 360;
- his deliverance from darkness;
- at Rome, 361;
- Tetzel, 362;
- burns the Pope’s Bull, 363, 364;
- at the Diet of Worms, 364;
- King of the Reformation, 368;
- ‘Duke Georges for nine days running,’ 370;
- his little daughter’s deathbed;
- his solitary Patmos, 371;
- his Portrait, 372
- Magna Charta, 203
- Mahomet’s birth, boyhood, and youth, 286;
- marries Kadijah, 288;
- quiet, unambitious life, 288;
- divine commission, 290;
- the good Kadijah believes him, 292;
- Seid, his slave, 293;
- his Cousin Ali, 293;
- his offences and sore struggles, 293;
- flight from Mecca; being driven to take the sword, he uses it, 295;
- the Koran, 298;
- a veritable Hero, 305;
- Seid’s death, 306;
- freedom from cant, 306;
- the infinite nature of duty, 309
- Malthus’s over-population panic, 170
- Man, by nature naked, 2, 42, 46;
- Mary, Queen, and Knox, 378
- Mayflower, sailing of the, 373
- Mecca, its rise, 285; Mahomet’s flight from, 294, 295
- Metaphors, the stuff of Language, 54
- Metaphysics inexpressibly unproductive, 40, 51
- Middle Ages, represented by Dante and Shakspeare, 329, 333
- Milton, 124
- Mirabeau, his ambition, 450
- Miracles, significance of, 191, 197
- Monmouth Street, and its ‘Ou’ clo’’ Angels of Doom, 181
- Montrose, the Hero-Cavalier, 453, 454
- Mother’s, a, religious influence, 75
- Motive-Millwrights, 166
- Mountain scenery, 115
- Musical, all deep things, 317
- Mystery, all-pervading domain of, 51
- Nakedness and hypocritical Clothing, 42, 47;
- Names, significance and influence of, 65, 195
- Napoleon and his Political Evangel, 135;
- compared with Cromwell, 461;
- a portentous mixture of Quack and Hero, 462;
- his instinct for the practical, 463;
- his democratic faith 463;
- his hatred of Anarchy, 464;
- apostatised from his old faith in Facts, and took to believing in Semblances, 464, 465;
- this Napoleonism was unjust, and could not last, 466
- Nature, the God-written Apocalypse of,39, 49;
- Necessity, brightened into Duty, 74
- Newspaper Editors, 33;
- Nothingness of life, 138, 139
- Nottingham bargemen, 255, 256
- Novalis, on Man, 248;
- Obedience, the lesson of, 74, 75
- Odin, the first Norse ‘man of genius,’ 258;
- Olaf, King, and Thor, 275
- Original man the sincere man, 280, 356
- Orpheus, 197
- Over-population, 170
- Own, conservation of a man’s, 151
- Paganism, Scandinavian, 241;
- not mere Allegory, 243;
- Nature-worship, 245, 266;
- Hero-worship, 248;
- creed of our fathers, 253, 272, 274;
- Impersonation of the visible workings of Nature, 254;
- contrasted with Greek Paganism, 256;
- the first Norse Thinker, 258;
- main practical Belief; indispensable to be brave, 267;
- hearty, homely, rugged Mythology, 270;
- Balder and Thor, 271;
- Consecration of Valour, 276
- Paradise and Fig-leaves, 27;
- Parliaments superseded by Books, 392;
- Cromwell’s Parliaments, 454
- Passivity and Activity, 74, 121
- Past, the, inextricably linked with the Present, 129;
- Paupers, what to do with, 173
- Peace-Era, the much-predicted, 133
- Peasant Saint, the, 172
- Pelham, and the Whole Duty of Dandies, 209
- Perseverance, law of, 178
- Person, mystery of a, 48, 101, 103, 179
- Philosophies, Cause-and-Effect, 26
- Phœnix Death-birth, 178, 183, 201
- Pitt, Mr., his reply when asked for help to Burns, 396
- Plato, the child-man of, 245
- Poet, the, and Prophet, 313, 332, 342
- Poetry and Prose, distinction of, 315, 323
- Popery, 367
- Poverty, advantages of, 334
- Priest, the true, a kind of Prophet, 346
- Printing, consequences of, 392
- Private judgment, 354
- Progress of the Species, 349
- Property, 150
- Prose. See Poetry.
- Proselytising, 6, 221
- Protestantism, the root of Modern European History, 364;
- Purgatory, noble Catholic conception of, 328
- Puritanism, founded by Knox, 373;
- Pym, 433, 434
- Radicalism, Speculative, 10, 20, 47, 188
- Ragnarök, 275
- Raleigh’s, Sir Walter, fine mantle, 36
- Ramadhan, the month of, 290
- Raphael, the best of Portrait-Painters, 326
- Reformer, the true, 347
- Religion, dead letter and living spirit of, 87;
- Reverence, early growth of, 75;
- indispensability of, 188
- Revolution, 423;
- Richter, 24, 369
- Right and Wrong, 309, 329
- Rousseau, not a strong man, 411;
- Runes, 263, 264, 388
- Sabeans, the worship of, 247, 283
- Sæmund, an early Christian priest, 253, 254
- St. Clement Danes, Church of, 407
- Saints, living Communion of, 185, 190
- Sarcasm, the panoply of, 99
- Sartor Resartus, genesis of, 7;
- its purpose, 201
- Saturn or Chronos, 98
- Savage, the aboriginal, 28
- Scarecrow, significance of the, 46
- Sceptical goose-cackle, 51
- Scepticism, a spiritual paralysis, 398-405, 433
- Schlegel, August Wilhelm, 341
- School education, insignificance of, 78, 80;
- Science, the Torch of, 1;
- the Scientific Head, 51
- Scotland awakened into life by Knox, 374
- Secrecy, benignant efficacies of, 164
- Secret, the open, 313
- Seid, Mahomet’s slave and friend, 293, 306
- Self-activity, 20
- Self-annihilation, 141
- Shakspeare and the Elizabethan Era, 334;
- Shame, divine, mysterious growth of, 30;
- the soil of all Virtue, 165
- Shekinah, Man the true, 247
- Silence, 135;
- Simon’s, Saint-, aphorism of the golden age, 178;
- a false application, 223
- Sincerity, better than gracefulness, 267;
- Smoke, advantage of consuming one’s, 114
- Snorro, his description of Odin, 260, 264, 268
- Society founded upon Cloth, 38, 45, 47;
- Solitude. See Silence.
- Sorrow-pangs of Self-deliverance, 115, 120, 121;
- Southey, and Literature, 396
- Space and Time, the Dream-Canvas upon which Life is imaged, 40, 49, 192, 195
- Spartan wisdom, 172
- Speculative intuition, 38.
- See German.
- Speech, great, but not greatest, 164
- Sphinx-riddle, the Universe a, 97
- Star worship, 247, 283
- Stealing, 151, 172
- Stupidity, blessings of, 123
- Style, varieties of, 54
- Suicide, 126
- Summary, 231
- Sunset, 70, 116
- Swallows, migrations and co-operative instincts of, 72
- Swineherd, the, 70
- Symbols, 163;
- Tabûc, the War of, 306
- Tailors, symbolic significance of, 217
- Temptations in the wilderness, 138
- Testimonies of Authors, 227
- Tetzel, the Monk, 362, 363
- Teufelsdröckh’s Philosophy of Clothes, 4;
- he proposes a toast, 10;
- his personal aspect, and silent deep-seated Sansculottism, 11;
- thawed into speech, 13;
- memorable watch-tower utterances, 14;
- alone with the Stars, 16;
- extremely miscellaneous environment, 17;
- plainness of speech, 21;
- universal learning, and multiplex literary style, 22;
- ambiguous-looking morality, 23;
- one instance of laughter, 24;
- almost total want of arrangement, 25;
- feeling of the ludicrous, 36;
- speculative Radicalism, 47;
- a singular Character, 58;
- Genesis properly an Exodus, 62;
- unprecedented Name, 65;
- infantine experience, 66;
- Pedagogy, 76;
- an almost Hindoo Passivity, 76;
- schoolboy jostling, 79;
- heterogeneous University Life, 83;
- fever-paroxysms of Doubt, 87;
- first practical knowledge of the English, 88;
- getting under way, 90;
- ill success, 94;
- glimpse of high life, 96;
- casts himself on the Universe, 101;
- reverent feeling towards Women, 102;
- frantically in love, 104;
- first interview with Blumine, 106;
- inspired moments, 108;
- short of practical kitchen-stuff, 111;
- ideal bliss and actual catastrophe, 112;
- sorrows and peripatetic stoicism, 113;
- a parting glimpse of his Beloved on her way to England, 116;
- how he overran the whole earth, 118;
- Doubt darkened unto Unbelief, 122;
- love of Truth, 124;
- a feeble unit, amidst a threatening Infinitude, 125;
- Baphometic Fire-baptism, 128;
- placid indifference, 129;
- a Hyperborean intruder, 136;
- Nothingness of life, 138;
- Temptations in the wilderness, 138;
- dawning of a better day, 141;
- the Ideal in the Actual, 148;
- finds his true Calling, 149;
- his Biography a symbolic Adumbration, significant to those who can decipher it, 152;
- a wonder-lover, seeker and worker, 156;
- in Monmouth Street among the Hebrews, 181;
- concluding hints, 219;
- his public History not yet done, perhaps the better part only beginning, 223
- Theocracy, a, striven for by all true Reformers, 382, 451
- Thinking Man, a, the worst enemy of the Prince of Darkness, 91, 150;
- true Thought can never die, 185
- Thor, and his adventures, 255, 271-274;
- his last appearance, 275
- Thought, miraculous influence of, 258, 266, 393;
- musical Thought, 316
- Thunder. See Thor.
- Time, the great mystery of, 246
- Time-Spirit, life-battle with the, 65, 98;
- Time, the universal wonder-hider, 197
- Titles of Honour, 186
- Tolerance, true and false, 368, 379
- Tools, influence of, 30;
- the Pen, most miraculous of tools, 150
- Trial by Jury, Burke’s opinion of, 422
- Turenne, 312
- Unbelief, era of, 86, 112;
- Universities, 83, 389
- Utgard, Thor’s expedition to, 273, 274
- Utilitarianism, 121, 176
- Valkyrs, the, 267, 268
- Valour, the basis of all virtue, 268, 271;
- Vates, the, 313, 314, 317
- View-hunting and diseased Self-consciousness, 117
- Voltaire, 146;
- War, 131
- Wisdom, 50
- Wish, the Norse god, 255;
- enlarged into a heaven by Mahomet, 310
- Woman’s influence, 102
- Wonder the basis of Worship, 50;
- region of, 51
- Words, slavery to, 40;
- Word-mongering and Motive-grinding, 123
- Workshop of Life, 149.
- See Labour.
- Worms, Luther at, 364
- Worship, transcendent wonder, 247.
- See Hero-worship.
- Young Men and Maidens, 97
- Zemzem, the sacred Well, 284