0107122.5 Acknowledgment. My thanks are due to the President and the Trustees of Tufts College for authorizing the printing of this study. To Professor Lewis E. Gates of Harvard University, and to Professors J. S. Kingsley and G. T. Knight of Tufts College, I am indebted for valuable suggestions. Professor Archibald MacMechan, of Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., has kindly read the article in proof, and has otherwise rendered generous aid. To Professor William R. Shipman of Tufts College I owe in many ways more than I can ever repay. D. L. MAULSBY. Ch [The abbreviations are arranged in alphabetical order. The paging of the American Edition of 1838-39 follows the name of the essay, for purpose of comparison with other editions.] Characteristics, LS L W M = =Luther's Psalm, JA =Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Again, LH Life of Heyne, = Life of Schiller, N. Y., Phila. and Boston, 1846. - MacMechan. II, I, 1- 27 II, 172-243 I, 351-389 258-262 Schiller, THE GROWTH OF SARTOR RESARTUS. The object of this essay is to show that the leading ideas of Sartor Resartus, the principal devices of its method, and even the equivalents of many of its phrases, are anticipated in Carlyle's earlier essays. In short, that the Sartor, instead of springing full-grown from the head of its author, and thus appearing to be little less than a miracle, is in fact a growth, an "epitome of all that Carlyle thought and felt in the course of the first thirtyfive years of his residence on this planet." In the collection of material for the demonstration of this thesis, the chief source for the text of the earlier essays has been the American reprint of 1838-1839. It has seemed best to include the essays published before August, 1834, the date of the appearance of the last instalment of Sartor as a magazine article, rather than to draw the line at August, 1831, when Carlyle was unsuccessfully hawking his completed manuscript among the London booksellers. For, although he may have left his sheets unrevised upon the shelf, in the interim, it was hardly like him to do so, and there is abundant evidence that the essays which appeared nearest to the publication of Sartor were written with his greater work freshly before him. They, at least, profited by the juxtaposition of their elder brother. The date of first publication, then, is adopted, as furnishing a definite basis of reckoning. The hack-work done in earlier years for Brewster's Encyclo (1) MacMechan's S. R., xxi. |