Reviews

In a review article published in 1831 Carlyle noted: “The state of society, in our days, is of all possible states the least unconscious one: this is specifically the Era when all manner of Inquieries into what was once the unfelt, involuntary sphere of man’s existence … occupy the whole domain of thought. … Never since the beginning of Time, was there … so intensly self conscious a Society. Our whole relations to the Universe and to our fellow man have become an Inquiry, a Doubt."