Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

!VARNHAGEN VON ENSE IN THE YEAES 1837-57 223work of its kind ; and shall be well read and useful tome one day. I wanted precisely such a lexicon, forthose ' Norse Mythics.' The business has had topostpone itself for the present ; but is by no meansfinally dismissed ; nay it is likely to return, on occasion,for a long course of time.I often feel it to havebeen a great mistake this that we Moderns have made,in studying with such diligence for thousands of yearsmere Greek and Eoman Primordia, and living in suchprofound dark inattention to our own.Odin seems tome as good a divinity as Zeus, the lomsburg is not awhit less heroic than any Siege of Troy ;—the Norseconceptions of this universe, the Norse operations inthis universe, were as well worth singing of, andelaborating, as some others !But Greeks and Eomans,I suppose, did not found Colleges for studying thePha'tiician languages and antiquities ?In how manyways are we "Ridden as with night-mares, we poorModern MenAfter long sorrows and confused hesitations, Ihave at last sat down to writesome kind of book onOliver Cromwell and the English Civil Wars andCommonwealth. It is the ungainliest enterjprise Iever tried ;grows more and more bewildering, thecloser I look into it : many times I have wished ithad never come athwart me ; stolen already variousyears of ugly labour from me. But in many enterprisesyears of sore labour are to be sunk as underthe foundations. I say and repeat to myself: St.