This is a great book to read drunk as, presumably, many in the 19th century did. In the biographical section of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle sets out three states of soul through which Teufelsdröckh passes: The Everlasting No, the Center of Indifference, and the Everlasting Yea. Thomas Carlyle Booklist Thomas Carlyle Message Board. The main ideas of renunciation, duty, work are derived from Goethe, whom Carlyle reverenced. SARTOR RESARTUS.Among autobiographies, Sartor Resartus (“the tailor patched”) remains unique. From the Introduction to the Oxford edition (2008): The fundamental Carlylean doctrines are all articulated, or at least, adumbrated here: the horrors of Utilitarianism; the religious base of society; the pattern of conversion--from everlasting No, through the Center of indifference to the Everlasting Yea--which showed that, in the the words of Thomas Henry Huxley,… Did I mention that it's also rather funny. This is the first edition to present the novel as it originally Literature Network » Thomas Carlyle » Sartor Resartus » Chapter 7. This is a large question, to which I cannot hope to give a more than tentative answer here. Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored') is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833–August 1834. exclaims Teufelsdrockh, "Have we not all to be tried with such? Devil’s Dung”), Sartor Resartus was published in book form in 1836 in the United States, with a preface by Ralph Waldo Emerson. "3 The main theme is that the intellectual forms in which the deepest human convictions have been cast are dead and new ones must be found to fit the time, but the intellectual content of this new religious system is … Not so easily can the old Adam, lodged in us by birth, be dispossessed. no convulsive transformation" at Leith Walk.2 Finally, despite the three chapters in Sartor and despite what Carlyle said on the subject, "The Everlasting Yea" itself may be denied, as when Sir Herbert Grierson declared in 1940 that Carlyle never really got beyond "The Everlasting No. Sartor Resartus (The Tailor Retailored) is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding. Chapter 7. Literature Network » Thomas Carlyle » Sartor Resartus » Chapter 9.