Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

282 LETTERS WRITTEN BY THOMAS CARLYLE TOit needed to be done :the English are utterly, I maysay disgracefully and stupidly dark about all Prussianand German things ;—and it did behove that someEnghshman should plunge, perhaps on his mereEnglish resources, into that black gulph, and tear upsome kind of human footpath that others mightfollow.—At any rate, I hope to get it do7ie ; and thatwill be reward enough for me, after the horrible imprisonmentI have had in it so long.The ' Edinburgh Keview ' on Goethe I have notseen : somebody told me it was by , whom you'may remember : Hat nichts zu bedeuten,' thereor here. Nor Lord Brougham's speculations onthe Great Friedrichany more ;—the speculations ofLord Brougham's horse are as well worth attendingto.And indeed are about as much attended to by thebest kind of people here ! For I am happy to say,there is,sparingly discoverable, a class among us of asilent kind, much superior to that vocal one ;—andmany a * Palmerston,' * Crimean War,' &c. &c. asmirrored in the Newspapers and in the heads of theseStillen im Lande would surprise you by the contrastsoffered. What they call ' Liberty of the press ' isbecome a thing not beautiful to look at in this country,to those who have eyes !The Indian mutiny is an ominous rebuke. Itseems probable they ivill get it beaten down again,but I observe those who know least about it, makelightest of it. What would Friedrich Wilhelm have