LATTER-DAY PAMPHLETS.
by Thomas Carlyle



But as yet struggles the twelfth hour of the Night. Birds of
darkness are on the wing; spectres uproar; the dead walk; the
living dream. Thou, Eternal Providence, wilt make the Day
dawn!--JEAN PAUL.


Then said his Lordship, "Well. God mend all!"--"Nay, by God,
Donald, we must help him to mend it!" said the other.--RUSHWORTH
(_Sir David Ramsay and Lord Rea, in 1630_).


CONTENTS.

I. THE PRESENT TIME II. MODEL PRISONS III. DOWNING STREET IV.
THE NEW DOWNING STREET V. STUMP-ORATOR


[February 1, 1850.] NO. I. THE PRESENT TIME.

The Present Time, youngest-born of Eternity, child and heir of
all the Past Times with their good and evil, and parent of all
the Future, is ever a "New Era" to the thinking man; and comes
with new questions and significance, however commonplace it look:
to know _it_, and what it bids us do, is ever the sum of
knowledge for all of us. This new Day, sent us out of Heaven,