...justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...in every kind ; yet England is dying of inanition." Fors Clavigera may be described, under one aspect of it, as a resumption, at the latter part of the...

...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...millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the cunningcst, and the willingest our Earth ever had; these men are here, the work they have done, the...

...justly regarded as one of the most ominous and withal one of the strangest ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers : The work they have done is here, abundant, exuberant, on every hand of us ; ••inil behold, some...

...justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...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;"...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...understood to be the strongest, the cunningest and the willingcst our Earth ever had; these men are here; the work they have done, the fruit they have realised...

...attempt to do?"39 In Carlyle's view, the pressing problem of mid-nineteenth-century England is that "England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce,...in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition." He proceeds to elaborate the paradox: "We have more riches than any Nation ever had before; we have...