“_O, Man; with what tremors as of earth-begettings hast thou not
wrought, O, Man!--Yet--is it utterly indeed of thee--? Did there
not toil in it also that_ WORLD-MAN, _or haply was there not Some
Other?... O, Man! knowest thou that word Some Other?_”--CARLYLE’S
“Frederick the Great.”
Most of these sketches are reprinted from “The Speaker,” and appear
in this form by the kind permission of its Editor.