Présentation de l'éditeur
The present attempt to render Carljle accessible to schools seems naturallj to require some few words of introduction. It has not been thought desirable to reduce the great writer bj anj method of simplification to the capacity of the lowest, as, by so doing, he would inevitably disappear. His manner and matter are inseparable. Nor, indeed, was it necessary; for Carlyle has the faculty of making his meaning plain, though the staple of his thinking may at first be above the capacity of that class of readers for whom this work is intended. Boys, however, will be benefited by attempting the great books resolutely and directly, rather than by any mistaken and laborious policy of approaching them through I ntroductioru and PH mers, It is believed that the central and cardinal doctrines of Carlyle will cause no difficulty to a class, when carefully mastered and presented by the teacher. The other ideas of Carlyle Man schief end, his duties, his rights, the unity of history may not be to even the highest classes the work of a day. Bome was not built in a day, and no Ready Reckoner in history, or religion, or morals, has yet been given to man. xiCK ieirh. rk ica Xd. But the labour thus bestowed on the great things of life, the great men, the great ideas, and the great books, will not be lost, least of all when the writings of Carlyle are concerned. Carlyle is a man well qualified to speak for himself; with this conviction the notes and elucidations at the end are of the briefest, the books recommended and mentioned being such as to be within general reach. The task of selection has been one of no slight difficulty. Carlyle is not a writer who lends himself readily to extracts, and many great passages have been omitted through their entailing a reference to matters which would have required for the barest explanation a long analysis of the book in which they appear.
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