Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

;170 EXCURSION TO PARISthing you ask. Not the least officiality is in hismanner ; everywhere rather the air of a hon ejifant,which I think really (with the addition of coquin) mustpartly be his character !— Starting from a fine Sevresvase which Lady Ashburton had been purchasing, heflowed like a tide into pottery in general ; into Msachievements when minister and encourager of Sevreshalf an hour ofthis, truly wearisome, though interspersedwith remarks and questions of our own.Thensuddenly drawing bridle, he struck into Association(Lord Ashburton had the day before been looking atsome of the Associated Workmen) ;gave his deliveranceupon that affair, with anecdotes of interviews,with political and moral criticisms, &c,, &c. For mewenig zu bedeuten, but was good too of its kind. Onemaster of Associes, perhaps a hatter, 'ruled like aCromwell,'—though by votes only ;and had banishedand purged out the opposition party, not to say alldrunkards and other unfit hands :tel regime defer wasthe indispensable requisite ;—for which, and for otherreasons. Association could never succeed or becomegeneral among workmen. Besides, it forbade excellence: no rising from the ranks there, to be a greatcaptain of workers,—as many, six or seven of whomhe named, had done by the common method. Thenapplicable only to hatters, chair-makers, and tradesmenwhose market was constant . Try it in iron-working,cotton-spinning, or the like, there arrive periods whenno market can be found, and without immense capital