Thomas Carlyle, Vol. 2 of 2: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Thomas Carlyle, Vol. 2 of 2: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835

We have seen him confessing to Irving that he did not believe, as his friend did, in the Christian religion, and that it was vain to hope that he ever would so believe. He tells his mother, and he so continued to tell her as long as she lived, that their belief was essentially the same, although their language was different. Both these statements were true. He was a Calvinist without the theol...