Fragment of an autograph letter : place not specified, to [John Ruskin], [1884].

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Fragment of an autograph letter : place not specified, to [John Ruskin], [1884].

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Describing Carlyle's intellect by saying "His eye was a perfect optical instrument which saw things & people as they were & not as they were supposed to be. When he said that Newman [John Henry Newman] had not the intellect of a rabbit, he meant that no intellect was worth the name which could look for truth in these days on the road back to Popery. An eye is not a good eye, however bright or limpid which sees crooked things as straight or square things as round. An intellect is not a good one which can find you 50 reasons for going wrong while you can only give one for going right."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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