Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Carlyle, Thomas February 5, 1881
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The Cherokee Advance 10 Feb 1881 p 2
Thomas Carlyle
Died Saturday morning the 5th at half-past eight o'clock, passing without a 
struggle beyond the great mystery which has no simpler solution Thomas 
Carlyle was eighty five years old on the 4th of last December.  He has 
suffered his whole life long from chronic dyspepsia, and it has been the 
custom of the critics to refer to this as the cause of whatever bitter, or 
grim, or obscure in his writings.  This, they say, gave his style its 
peculiar tone, and colored his views. 
With all his persisten (sic) pessimism, which would become intolerable were 
it not releived (sic) by his humor, which though grim is fresh and genuine.  
Carlyle will always occupy a place among the few who have directed the 
thought of their time.  As an essayist, he will stand side by side with 
Macauly, and as a historian he will rank with the best always barring the 
dyspeptic medium through which he views things.  He died leaving no work 
undone--but in literature he will remain a grim grotesque, but pathetically 
earnest and eloquent figure. 

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