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Past and Present: Thomas Carlyle, 1843

Carlyle biography

Book 1: Proem
Chapter 1	Midas
Chapter 2	The Sphinx
Chapter 3	Manchester Insurrection
Chapter 4	Morrison’s Pill
Chapter 5	Aristocracy of Talent
Chapter 6	Hero-Worship
Book 2: The Ancient Monk
Chapter 1	Jocelin of Brakelond
Chapter 2	St. Edmundsbury
Chapter 3	Landlord Edmund
Chapter 4	Abbot Hugo
Chapter 5	Twelfth Century
Chapter 6	Monk Samson
Chapter 7	The Canvassing
Chapter 8	The Election
Chapter 9	Abbot Samson
Chapter 10	Government
Chapter 11	The Abbot’s Ways
Chapter 12	The Abbot’s Troubles
Chapter 13	In Parliament
Chapter 14	Henry of Essex
Chapter 15	Practical-Devotional
Chapter 16	St. Edmund
Chapter 17	The Beginnings
Book 3: The Modern Worker.
Chapter 1	Phenomena
Chapter 2	Gospel of Mammonism
Chapter 3	Gospel of Dilettantism
Chapter 4	Happy
Chapter 5	The English
Chapter 6	Two Centuries
Chapter 7	Over-Production
Chapter 8	Unworking Aristocracy
Chapter 9	Working Aristocracy
Chapter 10	Plugson of Undershot
Chapter 11	Labour
Chapter 12	Reward
Chapter 13	Democracy
Chapter 14	Sir Jabesh Windbag
Chapter 15	Morrison Again
Book 4: Horoscope
Chapter 1	Aristocracies
Chapter 2	Bribery Committee
Chapter 3	The One Institution
Chapter 4	Captains of Industry
Chapter 5	Permanence
Chapter 6	The Landed
Chapter 7	The Gifted
Chapter 8	The Didactic

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