Thomas Carlyle

From Sartor Resartus (1831) by Thomas Carlyle

      ’ With men of a speculative turn,’ writes Teufelsdröckh, ‘ there come seasons, meditative, sweet, yet awful hours, when in wonder and fear you ask yourself that unanswerable question ;   Who am I ; the thing that can say “ I ” (das Wesen das sich ICH nennt) ? The world, with its loud trafficking, retires into the distance ; and, through the paper-hangings, and stone-walls, and think-plied tissues of Commerce and Polity, and all the living and lifeless integuments (of Society and a Body), wherewith you Existence sits surrounded,—the sight reaches forth into the void Deep, and you are alone with the Universe, and silently commune with it, as one mysterious Presence with another.
      ‘Who am I ; what is this ME ? A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance ;—some embodied, visualized Idea in the Eternal Mind ? Cogito, ergo sum Alas, poor Cogitator, this takes us but a little way. Sure enough, I am ; and lately was not : but Whence ? How ? Whereto ? The answer lies around, written in all colours and motions, uttered in all tones of jubilee and wail, in thousand-figured, thousand–voiced, harmonious Nature ; but where is the cunning eye and ear to whom that God-written Apocalypse will yield articulate meaning ? We sit as in a boundless Phantasmagoria and Dream-grotto ; boundless, for the faintest star, the remotest century, lies not even nearer the verge thereof : sounds and many-coloured visions flit round our sense ; but Him, the Unslumbering, whose work both Dream and Dreamer are, we see not ; except in rare half-waking moments, suspect not. Creation, says one, lies before us, like a glorious Rainbow ; but the Sun that made it lies behind us, hidden from us. Then, in that strange Dream, how we clutch at shadows as if they were substances ; and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake ! Which of your Philosophical Systems is other than a dream-theorem ; . . . (etc).

Hemingway/Seymour edition (New York : D. C. Heath 1915) pp. 7-8.
Everyman's (Dent 1908 ; Dent/Dutton 1964 reprint) pp. 39-40.

Bibliographic notes (University of California)

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus. On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. By Thomas Carlyle. Publisher London, Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons, ltd.; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. [1929] Description xx, 474 p. 18 cm. Series Half-title: Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. Essays and belles lettres. no. 278 Note "First issue of this edition, 1908; reprinted ... 1929." Note Bibliography: p. xvii-xviii. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus : on heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history / by Thomas Carlyle. Publisher London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton, 1918. Format Book

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Selections from Carlyle: Sartor Resartus, The French revolution, Past and present, ed., with introduction and notes, by Samuel B. Hemingway ... and Charles Seymour ... Publisher Boston, New York [etc.] D.C. Heath & co. [c1915] Description xxi, 260 p. 19 cm. Added Entry
Hemingway, Samuel Burdett, 1883-1958.
Seymour, Charles, 1885-1963.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Uniform Title [ Sartor resartus. Japanese] Title Ishō tetsugaku : Kishū Sensei / Doi Bansui yaku. Publisher Tōkyō : Dai Nihon Tosho, Meiji 42 [1909] (Meiji 45 [1912]

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus. On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history. Publisher London, Dent 1908. Description 474p. Series Everyman's library. Essays and belles lettres. no.278 Note "First issue of this edition, 1908; reprinted ... 1921." Note Includes bibliography. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor Resartus; zycie i zdania pana Teufelsdröckha, w trzech ksiegach ... Przeklad Sygurda Wisniowskiego. Imprint Warszawa, S. Lewental, 1882. Descript 223 p. 8vo.
Wiśniowski, Sygurd, 1841-1892, translator.     [New York Public Library]

Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. Uniform Title [ Works. 1845.] Title Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches : with eluciations / by Thomas Carlyle. Publisher New York : Wiley & Putnam, 1845. Description 2 v. ; 22 cm. Note Includes index. Language English

Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. Title Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches: with elucidations. By Thomas Carlyle. Publisher London, Chapman and Hall, 1845. Description 2 v. port. 23 cm. Note Bibliographical footnotes. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 Title The life of Friedrich Schiller, comprehending an examination of his works; with supplement of 1872 Edition [2d ed] Publisher London, Chapman [1845] Description 288 p. illus. 18 cm Note "Preface to the second edition" signed: T. Carlyle "Daniel Schubart": p. [253]264 Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus the life and opinion of Herr Teufelsdröckh; In three books / by Thomas Carlyle. Edition From the last London ed. rev. and corr. by the author. Publisher New York, Saxton & Miles, 1844. Description 130 p. 18 cm. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books. Edition 2d ed. Publisher London, J. Fraser, 1841. Description xii, 352p. 20 cm. Note Rebound in green morocco and issued in slipcase. Language English

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. Title Essays. With pref. by Thomas Carlyle. Publisher London, J. Fraser, 1841. Description xvi, 371p. 20 cm. Note Cited in I.W. Dyer. A bibl. of T. Carlyle's writings and ana. 1968. p.76. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus : the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. Publisher London : Saunders and Otley, 1838. Description xxii, 310 p. ; 20 cm. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh. Publisher Chicago New York, Rand, McNally [1838?] Description 235 p. 19cm. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus : In three books. Edition 2d ed. Publisher Boston : J. Munroe, 1837. Description 300 p. ; 20 cm.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus. In three books. Publisher Boston : James Munroe, 1836. Description viii, 299 p. 20 cm. Language English Added Entry Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus, in three books. Publisher London, J. Fraser, 1834. Description 107p. 22 cm. Note "Reprinted for friends from Fraser's magazine." Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus : the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. In three books / by Thomas Carlyle. Publisher London : Chapman and Hall, [1831?] Description 250 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus : the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, in three books / by Thomas Carlyle. Publisher London : Chapman and Hall, 1831. Description 228 p. : ill., front ; 18 cm. Note Includes index. Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title Sartor resartus; the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh. Publisher New York : Burt, [18--?] Description 314 p. 19cm. Series The Home library Language English

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Title The life of Friedrich Schiller. Publisher London, Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825. Description vi p., 1 l., 352 p. front. (port.) 24 x 15 cm. Note Published originally in London magazine, 1823-1824. Re-cast and somewhat enlarged in book form. Cited in Dyer, I.W. A bibl. of T. Carlyle's writings and ana, 1968. p.244. Author's autograph presentation copy to Miss Anderson, 1832. Language English Subject Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel, 1739-1791. Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805 -- Biography.