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Sartor Resartus
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by Thomas Carlyle (Author) (edit contributors)

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Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and... read more

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  • “Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it.”
  • “So true is it, what I then said, that the Fraction of Life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your Numerator as by lessening your Denominator. Nay, unless my Algebra deceive me, Unity itself divided by Zero will give Infinity. Make they claim of wages a zero, then; thou hast the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time write: 'It is only with Renunciation (Entsagen) that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.'”

First Sentence edit see section history

CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rush-lights and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or doghole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,-it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part I
1. Preliminary
2. Editorial Differences
3. Reminiscences
4. Characteristics
5. The World in Clothes
6. Aprons
7. Miscellaneous-Historical
8. The World Out of Clothes
9. Adamitism
10. Pure Reason
11. Prospective

Part II
1. Genesis
2. Idyllic
3. Pedagogy
4. Getting under Way
5. Romance
6. Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh
7. The Everlasting No
8. Centre of Indifference
9. The Everlasting Yea
10. Pause

Part III
1. Incident in Modern History
2. Church-Clothes
3. Symbols
4. Helotage
5. The Phoenix
6. Old Clothes
7. Organic Filaments
8. Natural Supernaturalism
9. Circumspective
10. The Dandiacal Body
11. Tailors
12. Farewell

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  1. Thomas Carlyle (Author)

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