Excerpt from Thomas Carlyle: A Study
ON the fifth day of February, 1881, passed on this great Cromwellian prince of philosophy and letters. He leaves behind him a legacy of elevated thought and authoritative opinion, valued by his contemporaries generally as the highest expression of rare talent and genius. His intellect, of the highest calibre, was impelled' by the spirit of a fine love of freedom and justice. The restraints of creeds and religious articles had no binding power upon his soaring thought. His soul was launched into the blue azure of free thought. He loved freedom for his own intellectual strength and the realisation of his philosophical ideals. Without it his radiant soul would have sunk, and night would have closed in upon his vision. Like all true seers he had his own peculiar light, which needed certain special conditions for its development. At first it dis played more strength than brilliancy, but afterwards it presented the grandest qualities of intellectual illumination. He was unlike Byron, whose genius came with an overwhelming rush, carrying all before him. His mind developed slowly, but, having assimilated.
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