LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS.
by Thomas Carlyle
But as yet struggles the twelfth hour of the Night. Birds of
darkness are on the wing; spectres uproar; the dead walk; the
living dream. Thou, Eternal Providence, wilt make the Day
dawn!--JEAN PAUL.
Then said his Lordship, "Well. God mend all!"--"Nay, by God,
Donald, we must help him to mend it!" said the other.--RUSHWORTH
(_Sir David Ramsay and Lord Rea, in 1630_).
CONTENTS.
I. THE PRESENT TIME II. MODEL PRISONS III. DOWNING STREET IV.
THE NEW DOWNING STREET V. STUMP-ORATOR
[February 1, 1850.] NO. I. THE PRESENT TIME.
The Present Time, youngest-born of Eternity, child and heir of
all the Past Times with their good and evil, and parent of all
the Future, is ever a "New Era" to the thinking man; and comes
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