Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — Carlyle and Cromwell. [ARTICLE]

Carlyle and Cromwell.

The principal task of Mr. Carlyle was to rescue Cromwell from the discoloration of time and the confusion of tongues. After that Mr. Carlyle did very little that will stand the test of time. He wrote an account of the French Revolution almost as fantastic as that event itself. His incapacity to appreciate Washington, his ecstacy over Frederick the Great and his ancestors, and, finally, his tyranny over his own wife, sit down as a man who began with promise and ended with a sour atom ch. Too much literature is net wholesome. —Gath.