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Chapter 9 ADAMITISM

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ng over that singular passage, was inclined to exclaim: What, have we got not only a Sansculottist, but an enemy to Clothes in the abstr

a Buck, or Blood, or Macaroni, or Incroyable, or Dandy, or by whatever name, according to year and place, such phenomenon is distinguished? In that one word lie included mysterious volumes. Nay, now when the reign of folly is over, or altered, and thy clothes are not for triumph but for defence, hast thou always worn them perforce, and as a consequence of Man's Fall; never rejoiced in them as in a warm movable House, a Body round thy Body, wherein that strange Thee of thine sat snug, defying all variations of Climate? Girt with thick double-milled kerseys; half-buried under shawls and broad-brims, and overalls and mud-boots, thy very fingers cased in doeskin and mittens, thou hast bestrode that 'Horse I ride'; and, though it were in wild winter, dashed through the world, glorying in it

Aboriginal Savages,' and their 'condition miserable indeed'? Would he have all this unsaid;

they of necessity be thrown to the dogs? The truth is, Teufelsdr?ckh, though a Sansculottist, is no Adamite; and much perhaps as he might wish to go forth before this degenerate age 'as a Sign,' would nowise wish to do it, as those old Adamites did, in a state of

urgeons dissect him, and fit his bones into a skeleton for medical purposes. How is this; or what make ye of your Nothing can act but where it is? Red has no physical hold of Blue, no clutch of him, is nowise in contact with him: neither are those ministering Sheriffs and Lord-Lieuten

wears Clothes, which are the visible emblems of that fact. Has not your Red hanging-individual a horsehair wig, squirrel-skins, and a pl

cellaneous Functionaries, are advancing gallantly to the Anointed Presence; and I strive, in my remote privacy, to form a clear picture of that solemnity,-on a sudden, as by some enchanter's wand, the-shall I speak it?-the Clothes fly-off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes, Grandees, Bishops, Generals, Anoin

g Newspaper without a shudder? Hypochondriac men, and all men are to a certain extent hypochondriac, should be more gently treated. With what readi

Gott! How each skulks into the nearest hiding-place; their high State Tragedy (Haupt- und Staats-Action) becomes a Pickleherring-Farce to weep at, which is the worst kind of F

these Guardians of our Liberties, naked, or nearly so, last night; 'a forked Radish with a head fantastically carved'? And why might he not, did our stern fate so order it, walk out to St Stephen's, as well as into bed, in that no-fashion; and there, with other similar Radishes, hold a Bed of Justice? 'Solace of those afflicted with the like!' U

nd English trial by jury: nay perhaps, considering his high function (for is not he too a Defender of Property, and Sovereign armed with the terrors of the Law?

a stick and red clout, to the market": or if some drivers, as they do in Norfolk,

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Contents

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Chapter 1 PRELIMINARY
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Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Chapter 2 EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES
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Chapter 3 REMINISCENCES
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Chapter 4 CHARACTERISTICS
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Chapter 5 THE WORLD IN CLOTHES
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Chapter 6 APRONS
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Chapter 7 MISCELLANEOUS-HISTORICAL
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Chapter 8 THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES
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Chapter 9 ADAMITISM
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Chapter 10 PURE REASON
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Chapter 11 GENESIS
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Chapter 12 IDYLLIC
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Chapter 13 PEDAGOGY
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Chapter 14 GETTING UNDER WAY
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Chapter 15 ROMANCE
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Chapter 16 SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR CKH
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Chapter 17 THE EVERLASTING NO
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Chapter 18 CENTRE OF INDIFFERENCE
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Chapter 19 THE EVERLASTING YEA
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Chapter 20 INCIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY
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Chapter 21 CHURCH-CLOTHES
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Chapter 22 SYMBOLS
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Chapter 23 HELOTAGE
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Chapter 24 THE PH NIX
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Chapter 25 OLD CLOTHES
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Chapter 26 ORGANIC FILAMENTS
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Chapter 27 NATURAL SUPERNATURALISM
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Chapter 28 CIRCUMSPECTIVE
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Chapter 29 THE DANDIACAL BODY
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Chapter 30 TAILORS
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Chapter 31 FAREWELL
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