There is a want of sanity in their manner which throws a suspicion on their substance (though it is often profound); and he brandishes one or two fallacies, of which he has himself a high notion, but which plain people will always detect and deride.
Bagehot comments on the perceived lack of sanity in Carlyle's arguments, which may undermine their substance.
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He had seen that LEISURE is the great need of early societies, and slaves only can give men leisure.
But all men heed great results, and a change of Government is a great result.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
They have given what I may call a CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIVERSE.
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