...the first seven weeks of the year in writing Past and Present. "England is full of wealth/' he wrote, "of multifarious produce, supply for human want in...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...Goldsmith is admirable general statement becomes in Carlyle direct analysis : "The condition of England ... is justly regarded as one of the most ominous and...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers :...

...the Cambridge History, "in the lowest trough of its misery." Her condition wrote Carlyle in 1843, " is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and...in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition." This the papers daily verified; now by a story of a "poor bone-picker, who died upon a dung-hill;"...

...BOOK I-^PROEM * s * CHAPTER' i" •• MIDAS THE condition of England, on which many pamp}t?ets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts...unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is juscly regarded as one ot the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world....

...reiterated the same protest more strongly in 1843 in Past and Present, in thunderous denunciation : "England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...human want in every kind ; yet England is dying of inanition."27 "To whom then is this wealth of England wealth? Who is it that it blesses; makes happier,...

...English people. Nowhere is the human problem of those early days better stated than in these words: "England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want of every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and...

...first seven weeks of the year in writing "Past and Present": "England is full of wealth," he wrote, "of multifarious produce, supply for human want in...land of England blooms and grows; waving with yellow harvests; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood...

...conditions for a majority of the inhab-^ itants of Great Britain. "England," said Carlyle in the 'forties, "is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply...in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition." * "This association of poverty with progress," argued the American advocate of taxation of land values,...

...the first seven weeks of the year in writing Past and Present. "England is full of wealth," he wrote, "of multifarious produce, supply for human want in...land of England blooms and grows ; waving with yellow harvests ; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers understood...

...sickly hallucinations? Near upon eighty years have gone since Carlyle, in his Past and Present, wrote, ' England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want of every kind; yet England is dying of inanition.' If instead of England we read Europe, will not the...