The Carlyles' Chelsea Home - Being Some Account Of No. 5 Cheyne Row

THE CARLYLES CHELSEA HOME. SHOW me the man you honour I know by that symptom better than by any other what kind ofman you yourself are. . . . Give every man the meed of honour he has merited, you have the ideal world of . . . poets a world such as the idle poets dream of, such as the active poets, the heroic and the true ofmen are incessantly toiling to achieve, and more and more realise. Achieved, realised, it never can be striven after, and approximated to, it must forever be, woe to us if at any time it be not . . . To give our approval aright, alas, to do every one of uswhat lies in him that the honourable man everywhere, and he only have honour, that the able man everywhere be put into the place which is fit for him, which is his by eternal right is not this the sum of all social morality for every citizen of this world . . . Imperfectly, and not perfectly done, we know this duty must always be. Not done at all no longer remembered as a thing which God and Nature and the Eternal Voices do require to be done, alas, we see too well what kind ofa world that ultimately makes for us . . . But farther still. . . . Is this ofyours a worthy commemoration . . . The Real, if you will stand by it, is respectable. The coarsest hobnailed pair of shoes, if honestly made according to the laws of fact and leather, are not ugly they are honest, and fit for their object the highest eyemay look on them without displeasure, nay with a kind of satisfaction. This rude packing case, it is faithfully made square to the rule, and formed with rough and ready strength against injury fit for its use not a pretentious hypocrisy, but a modest serviceable fact whoever pleases to look upon it, will find the imageof a humble manfulness in it, and will pass on with some infinitesimal impulse to thank the gods. T. CARLYLE, Latter-Day Pamphlets, Hudsons Statue, July, 1850. THOMAS CARLYLE, CT. 58. Row. The Carlyles Chelsea Home, being some account of No. 5, Cheyne Row, BY REGINALD BLUNT. Could each here vow to do his little task even as the Departed did his great one in the mannerof atrue man, not fora Day, but for Eternity To live, as he counselled and commanded, not commodiously in the Reputable, the Plausible, the Half, but resolutely in the Whole, the Good, the True Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren resolut zu leben