{"id":514,"date":"2026-08-21T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=514"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:00:07","slug":"thomas-carlyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Carlyle"},"content":{"rendered":"The coming depression may turn out to be a blessing: The air may be cleaner from lack of traffic and people&#8217;s focus may shift. Consider the following quote from Thomas Carlyle:<br \/>Full of religion, or at least of religiosity, as our Friend has since exhibited himself, he hides not that, in those days, he was wholly irreligious: &#8220;Doubt had darkened into Unbelief,&#8221; says he; &#8220;shade after shade goes grimly over your soul, till you have the fixed, starless, Tartarean black.&#8221; To such readers as have reflected, what can be called reflecting, on man&#8217;s life, and happily discovered, in contradiction to much Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, speculative and practical, that Soul is not synonymous with Stomach; who understand, therefore, in our Friend&#8217;s words, &#8220;that, for man&#8217;s well-being, Faith is properly the one thing needful; how, with it, Martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, Worldlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury&#8221;: to such it will be clear that, for a pure moral nature, the loss of his religious Belief was the loss of everything.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming depression may turn out to be a blessing: The air may be cleaner from lack of traffic and people&#8217;s focus may shift. Consider the following quote from Thomas Carlyle:Full of religion, or at least of religiosity, as our Friend has since exhibited himself, he hides not that, in those days, he was wholly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}