When told that the New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller had grandly declared “I accept the universe,” the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle dryly remarked: “She’d better.”

Let me also say this: Morris’s theory will be superceded, just like Herodotus’s theory was superceded, and that of Thomas Carlyle.

“Hunger,” wrote the great historian Thomas Carlyle, “whets everything, especially suspicion and indignation.”