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Chapter 3. Symbols.
Probably it will elucidate the drift of these foregoing obscure utterances, if we here insert som...
Chapter 2. Church-Clothes.
Not less questionable is his Chapter on Church-Clothes, which has the farther distinction of bein...
Chapter 1. Incident in Modern History.
As a wonder-loving and wonder-seeking man, Teufelsdrockh, from an early part of this Clothes-Volu...
Chapter 10. Pause.
Thus have we, as closely and perhaps satisfactorily as, in such circumstances, might be, followed...
Chapter 9. The Everlasting Yea.
"Temptations in the Wilderness!" exclaims Teufelsdrockh, "Have we not all to be tried with such? ...
Chapter 8. Center of Indifference.
Though, after this "Baphometic Fire-baptism" of his, our Wanderer signifies that his Unrest was b...
Chapter 7. The Everlasting No.
Under the strange nebulous envelopment, wherein our Professor has now shrouded himself, no doubt ...
Chapter 6. Sorrows of Teufelsdrockh
We have long felt that, with a man like our Professor, matters must often be expected to take a c...
Chapter 5. Romance.
"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had the poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an Auscultatorship...
Chapter 4. Getting Under Way.
"Thus nevertheless," writes our Autobiographer, apparently as quitting College, "was there realiz...
Chapter 3. Pedagogy.
Hitherto we see young Gneschen, in his indivisible case of yellow serge, borne forward mostly on ...
Chapter 2. Idyllic.
"HAPPY season of Childhood!" exclaims Teufelsdrockh: "Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mo...
Chapter 1. Genesis.
In a psychological point of view, it is perhaps questionable whether from birth and genealogy, ho...
Chapter 11. Prospective.
The Philosophy of Clothes is now to all readers, as we predicted it would do, unfolding itself in...
Chapter 10. Pure Reason.
It must now be apparent enough that our Professor, as above hinted, is a speculative Radical, and...
Chapter 9. Adamitism.
Let no courteous reader take offence at the opinions broached in the conclusion of the last Chapt...
Chapter 8. The World Out of Clothes.
If in the Descriptive-Historical portion of this Volume, Teufelsdrockh, discussing merely the Wer...
Chapter 7. Miscellaneous-Historical.
Happier is our Professor, and more purely scientific and historic, when he reaches the Middle Age...
Chapter 6. Aprons.
One of the most unsatisfactory Sections in the whole Volume is that on Aprons. What though stout ...
Chapter 5. The World in Clothes.
"As Montesquieu wrote a Spirit of Laws," observes our Professor, "so could I write a Spirit of Cl...