tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post6904905047192383942..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question by Thomas Carlyleombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-65777764297750244752016-02-05T13:10:02.166+00:002016-02-05T13:10:02.166+00:00I can't resist pointing out the irony that it ...I can't resist pointing out the irony that it was Carlyle himself who led the plaudits for the 'scoundrel' Eyre, while Mill was fervently trying to get him put in jail. Many of the most prominent Eyre-ites were Carlyle acolytes as well (Ruskin, Dickens, Kingsley). I also disagree with your take on Mill and Ireland, and will answer it at that post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-83994782444546420022016-02-05T09:50:31.821+00:002016-02-05T09:50:31.821+00:00Where I sympathise with him is his irascible react...Where I sympathise with him is his irascible reaction to virtue signalling where there is no significant burden. Did anyone even give up sugar? In my post yesterday I find Mill guilty of similar racism towards the Irish and blindness towards his involvement with the plundering East India Company. It was the moral ‘snow-blindness’ of the day. The Eyre affair showed how many of the elite could champion a scoundrel. ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-28249920654344069012016-02-04T22:31:22.709+00:002016-02-04T22:31:22.709+00:00Yes, there's some Celtic humour there, but I t...Yes, there's some Celtic humour there, but I think the elements of satire and misdirection can be over-emphasized, as Carlyle's private opinions were, in fact, pretty much M'Quirk's. Of course, lots of Carlyle scholars do insist on the Swiftian-satire reading, but they have little choice, as to read it straight would condemn Carlyle in most people's eyes.<br /><br />Carlyle had plenty to say on the Irish question. The collection Rescued Essays has a few short contributions from the late 1840s, not wholly sympathetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com