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__Interviewer__: Hello, today here we have Mr. Thomas Carlyle who has generously agreed to share his philosophy with us. __Thomas Carlyle__: Hello, it is a pleasure to share my great philosophical ideals with you. So do you have any questions ready for me? I am quite a busy person. __Interviewer__: Well, first of all, what are the main points of your philosophy? __Thomas Carlyle__: Hmm.. I do have a lot of philosophical ideals.. I dislike industrialism, I hate political radicalism, liberalism, democracy as well as the involvement of two different classes in ruling. __Interviewer__: So.. you dislike many things. Could you explain more to us exactly why you do not like the involvement of two different classes in ruling? __Thomas Carlyle__: The people of our country are very unsatisfied with our government system. This disastrous government actually caused because of the two social classes that were involved in ruling the country. They are the aristocracy and the working class. They both have an equal amount of fault and guilt for causing this unfavorable government. The first class has fault in being oblivious with the situation of peasants and commoners, and spending more than enough amount of money as well as living fake lives. The second class has fault, in ways that they are fools full of beer and nonsense. They also lack intellectual capacity to participate in any form of government. __Interviewer__: You really have a critical view of the world. So what kinds of problems are you trying to solve as a philosopher? __Thomas Carlyle__: I am not really trying to ‘solve’ any problems, but I guess I wish the gaps between social classes do improve. Because this is impossible, I came up with another philosophical belief of my own, that the rule of all life is that life is ruled by inequality. Not everyone can be equal, so social classes exist no matter how hard you try to get rid of it. __Interviewer__: What influenced your philosophical beliefs? __Thomas Carlyle__: I guess such a disastrous situation I am living in influenced me. If our world were much better than it is now, I wouldn’t have to come up with most of my philosophical ideals because most of my conclusions have to do with criticizing the world. __Interviewer__: Thank you again, for joining us to share your wonderful ideas.

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//"Yet what have they not become? Increased security and pleasurable heat soon followed; divine shame or modesty, as yet a stranger to the anthropophagous bosom, arose there mysteriously under clothes, a mystic __**shrine**__ for the holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, __**social polity**__; clothes have made men of us; they are threatening to make clothes-screens of us."// from **THE PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES - THOMAS CARLYLE - FROM 'SARTOR RESARTUS'** "The Philosophy of Thomas Carlyle." __Read Books Online Free - Romance, Mystery, Teen and more__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

DBQ: In the short excerpt above from the "Philosophy of Clothes" by Thomas Carlyle, what does Carlyle mean by "clothes"? What is he trying to represent?

//'I renounced utterly; I would hope no more and fear no more. To die or to live was to me alike insignificant. Here, then, as I lay in that Centre of Indifference, cast by __**benignant**__ upper influence into a healing sleep, the heavy dreams rolled gradually away, and I awoke to a new heaven and a new earth. I saw that man can do without happiness and instead thereof find __**blessedness**__. Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea wherein all contradiction is solved; wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. In this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal; work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free! Produce! produce! Work while it is called to-day.'// from **BIOGRAPHY OF DIOGENES TEUFELSDROCKH** "The Philosophy of Thomas Carlyle." __Read Books Online Free - Romance, Mystery, Teen and more__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

DBQ: What is Thomas Carlyle trying to address with the document above? Who's point of view is the author in?

//"Equally mechanical, and of equal simplicity, are the methods proposed by both parties for completing or securing this all-sufficient perfection of arrangement. It is no longer the moral, religious, spiritual condition of the people that is our concern, but their physical, practical, economical condition, as regulated by public laws. Thus is the Body-politic more than ever worshipped and tendered; but the Soul-politic less than ever. Love of country, in any high or generous sense, in any other than an almost animal sense, or mere habit, has little importance attached to it in such reforms, or in the opposition shown them. Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the __**discontented**__, a 'taxing-machine'; to the contented, a 'machine for securing property.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable."// from **Signs of the Times: The "Mechanical Age"** "Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Carlyle: from Signs of the Times." __FORDHAM.EDU__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

DBQ: How does Thomas Carlyle relate the government and politics to the Industrial Revolution?

//"One age, he is hag-ridden, bewitched; the next, priestridden, befooled; in all ages, bedevilled. And now the Genius of Mechanism __**smothers**__ him worse than any Nightmare did. In Earth and in Heaven he can see nothing but Mechanism; he has fear for nothing else, hope in nothing else."// from **Sartor Resartus, 1831** "Thomas Carlyle." __www.kirjasto.sci.fi__. 7 Dec. 2008 .

DBQ: How does Thomas Carlyle critisize the history of the world and the different eras or stages of it in the document above? What is Thomas Carlyle's view of the Industrial Revolution?

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