Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

40 WOTTON REINFREDbecome believing, become active, become happy.Formalignant activity it was too noble and moral, forsucb icy rest too passionate. Nay, even as it stood,was not a burst of fierce tenderness, or far-glancingdespair every now and then breaking forth as if inspite of him ?Bernard had half-foreseen his passion for JaneMontagu, and hoped that it might lead him back tolife, and in the end make two worthy and belovedbeings happy. Painfully as the issue had deceivedhim, he did not slacken his efforts or abate his confidence.This journey he had diligently contrived andrecommended, in the course of which many things,as he hoped, might occur to solace, to excite andinstruct the marred and afflicted spirit of thfe youngman, and so in the end to recal him from thoseregions of baleful shadows into the light of truth andliving day.