Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

!'VAKNHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEAES 1837-57 211world's ; for the sake of this Time, and perhaps stillmore of the Times that are coming.Your Eussian Kartoptschin is a terrible fellow;a man in the style of Michael Angelo ! One beginsto understand how what I often call dumb Eussia'may be a kind of dumb Eome, one of the greatestphenomena on the Earth present, with such souls init here and there. We have to thank you, at least Ihave, for showing us a glimpse of actual Eussia faceto face for the first time. By your help I got a realdirect look at the wild Poet-soul, Puschkin ;and saidto myself, Yes, there is a Eussian man of genius ;the first time, I see something of the Eussians !forWebegin here, the better heads of us, to have a certaintrue respect for Eussia with all its'Barbarismreal and imaginary; to understand that tho' theEussians have all Journalists in the world againstthem, they have Nature, Nature's laws and GodAlmighty partly in their favour ! They can drillwild savage peoples and tame waste continents,tho' they cannot write Journalistic Articles. Whata contrast with our French friends ! They canprove by the precisest logic before all men thatthey were, are and probably will always be in possessionof the true light : Voila, this is the key to allarcana, this of ours.in Algiers and elsewhereAnd then take a look at themMy^ own studies and struggles, totally ineffectualas yet, have lain principally for a long time back in