Sartor Resartus: the Life And Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh
The book Sartor Resartus: the Life And Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh was written by author Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 Here you can read free online of Sartor Resartus: the Life And Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sartor Resartus: the Life And Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh a good or bad book?
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" CHAPTER X. PAUSE. Thus have we, as closely and perhaps satisfactorily as, in suchcircumstances, might be, followed Teufelsdrockh, through the varioussuccessive states and stages of Growth, Entanglement, Unbelief, andalmost Reprobation, into a certain clearer state of what he himselfseems to consider as Conversion. "Blame not the word, " says he; "rejoicerather that such a word, signifying such a thing, has come to light inour modern Era, though hidden from the wisest Ancients. The Old Worldkn...ew nothing of Conversion; instead of an _Ecce Homo_, they had onlysome _Choice of Hercules_. It was a new-attained progress in the MoralDevelopment of man: hereby has the Highest come home to the bosoms ofthe most Limited; what to Plato was but a hallucination, and to Socratesa chimera, is now clear and certain to your Zinzendorfs, your Wesleys, and the poorest of their Pietists and Methodists. " It is here, then, that the spiritual majority of Teufelsdrockhcommences: we are henceforth to see him "work in well-doing, " withthe spirit and clear aims of a Man.
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