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In the preceding Book Carlyle has been talking of the twelfth century i.e. the Past. In this
Book he talks of the Present and its most outstanding fact, namely the Modern Worker or
the rise of Labour.
CHAPTER # 1: PHENOMENA
THEME: True religion is gone; true Christianity is dead and universal heroism lies in
grave. The social order is impossible without religion because justice and honesty of an
individual do not arise from socio-economic order but from religion.
THEME: Modern society is held together by only one bond – cash payment.
CHAPTER # 4: HAPPY
THEME: Men are wrong in claiming to be happy, that is not their destiny; they can only
claim the blessedness of work.
THEME: Of all the nations, the English are the stupidest in speech, the wisest in action.
In their unconsciousness lies their strength.
THEME: The one voice of GOD heard in the two atheistic centuries is the practical
labour and it must become a seeing rational giant.
CHAPTER # 7: OVER-PRODUCTION
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CHAPTER # 8: UNWORKING ARISTOCRACY
THEME: The Unworking aristocracy, parasitic and pampered race, must find its duties
and do them; otherwise it will have to be abolished.
THEME: The working Aristocrats of England is in a bad position now, mainly because
it is given to Mammon worship. It must take its stand upon honest work.
THEME: There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. The old Gospels
of “know thyself” are exploded, now the latest Gospel is “know thy work and do it”.
Man’s true blessedness is in work.
THEME: Work is worship. The worker’s true wages can be paid only in Heaven. Money
wages can not compensate work.
THEME: A true governor is the one who gives priority to the service of public rather
than to get fame.
THEME: England has become atheistic and irreligious. Religion is no Morrison’s Pill to
be gulped down. Rituals and liturgies do not make religion. Religion in its true sense is a
belief in unseen powers.