Book III
Chapter 1. Incident in Modern History.
As a wonder-loving and wonder-seeking man, Teufelsdrockh, from an early part of this Clothes-Volu...
Chapter 2. Church-Clothes.
Not less questionable is his Chapter on Church-Clothes, which has the farther distinction of bein...
Chapter 3. Symbols.
Probably it will elucidate the drift of these foregoing obscure utterances, if we here insert som...
Chapter 4. Helotage.
At this point we determine on adverting shortly, or rather reverting, to a certain Tract of Hofra...
Chapter 5. The Phoenix.
Putting which four singular Chapters together, and alongside of them numerous hints, and even dir...
Chapter 6. Old Clothes.
As mentioned above, Teufelsdrockh, though a Sansculottist, is in practice probably the politest m...
Chapter 7. Organic Filaments.
For us, who happen to live while the World-Phoenix is burning herself, and burning so slowly that...
Chapter 8. Natural Supernaturalism.
It is in his stupendous Section, headed Natural Supernaturalism, that the Professor first becomes...
Chapter 9. Circumspective.
Here, then, arises the so momentous question: Have many British Readers actually arrived with us ...
Chapter 10. The Dandiacal Body.
First, touching Dandies, let us consider, with some scientific strictness, what a Dandy specially...
Chapter 11. Tailors.
Thus, however, has our first Practical Inference from the Clothes-Philosophy, that which respects...
Chapter 12. Farewell.
So have we endeavored, from the enormous, amorphous Plum-pudding, more like a Scottish Haggis, wh...