LV. Carlyle and The German Philosophy Problem During The Year 1826–1827

The year 1825–26, was of very great importance to Carlyle. It marked his emergence from the ethnic or purely humanistic phase of intellectual development, into the phase of transcendental thought. During the year he found for the first time a permanent within the flux. He encountered an unchanging truth through art: “the fiction of the poet,” he said, “is not falsehood but the purest truth.” This culmination is the result of the æsthetic progress traceable through the preceding period.