Page:Works of Thomas Carlyle - Volume 01.djvu/138

106 PHILIPPUS ZAEHDARM, COGNOMINE MAGNUS,

QUINQUIES MILLE PERDICES

VARII CIBI

IN STERCUS  

Teufelsdröckh gives up his Profession. The heavenly mystery of Love. Teufelsdröckh's feeling of worship towards women. First and only love. Blumine. Happy hearts and free tongues. The infinite nature of Fantasy. Love's joyful progress; sudden dissolution; and final catastrophe.

' long years,' writes Teufelsdröckh, 'had the poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an Auscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking bricks without stubble, before ever the question once struck him with entire force: For what?—Beym Himmel! 