Soul and Body.
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In the essay on CARLYLE IN MIR. K. Fl. Horne's
New Spirit of tho Age we find the following
just cnticism


Every reader may not be acquainted as every
thinker should with the Essays of r. w. Emer-
son. of Concord, Massachusetts. He is q fol
lower OF Mr.. Carlyle, and in the true spirit; that
Is, no imitator, Dot worker ont of his own
thoughts 20 onc of the EIgisn editions OF
this volume. Mr. Carl, lie has written short Pre-
face, in whica the following gaunt and ghasty
grutesquc and graphic passage occurs. and which
moreover, is characteristic and TO our immediate
point.


I'm word while 80 mrng Benihamisms, Fouriersans
Socialism,. gra;ess'a- to have no soul, go stasSe;
tns nnI ,ownS IN 1,'"s ~ Nv bS , same aIc,j
y,iad.n & U,sH h @ & xs n y nS mn ~ va v
tSs,h souT W g tncin, zoe nS 5s Sliced NOT any
alive S, '''' ~


That the disciples of Bentham, and Robert
Owen and Fourier, should be accused of pro-
fes.ing TO have no soul, because their MAN object
has been 10 smelioralc tho bodily condition OF
mankind; or TINT an ind ference TO poetry and
the fine arts, except as light amuselnents, 10 be
taken alternately with gymnastics and oot,ball,
should be construed into denial OF the existence
of such things we do not consider iair dealing
True, they all think of first providing for the
boby; and, looking around al the enormous amount
of human suffering from physical causes, II is no
great wonder that they chiefly devote their efforts
TO that amelioraton. A man who Is starving.
is not in fl state for poetry nor even tor prayer
Neither Is u man f. Tor prayer, who Is diseased,
or ragged, or unclcan,-except the one prayer for
that very arnelioration which the abused phi!oso
pliers of the body seek 10 orialn for hiin. With
respect, however, to the disciples OF Bentham,
Owen, and Fourier, 1t is wonder that he
should be at utter variance. No great amount OF
love ais lost between ,hcm.' Not that Carlyle
reads or knows much Of their systems; and not
that they read or know anything OF his writings
IN these natural an:pathies all philosophers are
in an equal state OF unreasonableness. Or shall
we rather call it wisdom, to follow the strong IN
stinc,s of nature, without any prcvsr'cs,ing Fea.
soning, upon the in-felt fact3 Carlyle could
make little good out of their systems, II he read
them; and they could make nothing at all OF hl'
writings. The opposite parties might force
themselves 10 meet grhyely, with hard lines OF
the efforts OF understanding in their faces, and
all manner of professions of dispassonate inves-
tigation and mutual love OF truth-and they
would clash foreheads at the first step, and part
in fury. "Thc Body is the first thing to be