Excerpt from Readings From Carlyle: Selected and Edited With Introduction and Notes
Tm; present attempt to render Carlyle accessible to schools seems naturally to require some few words of introduction. It has not been thought desirable to reduce the great writer by any method of simplification to the capacity of the lowest, as, by so doing, he would inevitably disappear. His manner and matter are inseparable. Nor, indeed, was it necessary; for Carlyle h the faculty of making his meaning plain, though the. Staple of his thinking may at first be above the capacity of that class of readers for whom this work is intended. Boys, however, will be benefited by attempting the great books resolutely and directly, rather than by any mistaken and laborious policy of approaching them through Introductions and Primers.
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