is to say, the relations of the mind to itself; of this Mathematics and
Logic, together with Theology, are branches.

I am in doubt under which head to put morality, for I cannot determine
exactly in my own mind whether morality can exist independent of others,
whether the idea of morality could ever have arisen in the mind of an
isolated being or not. I am rather inclined to the opinion that it is
objective.

Under the head of objective knowledge comes first Physics, including the
whole body of the relations of inanimate unorganised bodies; secondly,
Physiology. Including the structure and functions of animal bodies,
including language and Psychology; thirdly comes History.

One object for which I have attempted to form an arrangement of
knowledge is that I may test the amount of my own acquirements. I shall
form an extensive list of subjects on this plan, and as I acquire any
one of them I shall strike it out of the list. May the list soon get
black! though at present I shall hardly be able, I am afraid, to spot
the paper.

(A prophecy! a prophecy, 1845!).

[April 1842 introduces a number of quotations from Carlyle's
Miscellaneous Writings, "Characteristics," some clear and crisp, others
sinking into Carlyle's own vein of speculative mysticism, e.g.]

"In the mind as in the body the sign of health is unconsciousness."

"Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into