Present Time (Carlyle - Studies in Reaction)

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Author: Thomas Carlyle ISBN: 9781922602022 Binding: paperback, small format Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic In The Present Time, Carlyle takes aim at modernity. This essay was, even in its time, seen as so blistering that the Southern Literary Messenger described its contents as "purely monstrous, and the most elaborate argument would not place their monstrosity more clearly before the reader, than the simple enunciation of them." We present it here with another of Carlyle's essays. Show more