Carlyle invented a German professor, Herr Teufelsdröckh, gave him a treatise on the philosophy of clothes, and used the pretence to argue that all institutions and creeds are garments the spirit wears out. Inside it is a spiritual autobiography — the Everlasting No, the Centre of Indifference, the Everlasting Yea.
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