...is akin to Teufelsdroch's contention in Sartor Resartus that "all visible things are emblems. . . . Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth." But that transcendental philosophizing could also have been influenced by Melville's acquaintance with...

...cannot be pictured or imaged in the mind. In particular, Brooks takes up Carlyle's comment that All visible things are emblems; what thou seest is not...spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth.'62 He uses this to explore what he terms 'symbolic realism' at work in Dickens, in Pre-Raphaelite...

...a representative of the world of scholarship makes with studied profundity the following comments: "Clothes, as despicable as we think them, are so unspeakably...from the King's mantle downwards, are Emblematic. . . . The essence of all Science lies in the Philosophy of Clothes. "43 1 would no more wish than does...

...not traces or reflections of material causes, but present themselves instead as "emblems [in which] matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth."19 Following Hilaire Belloc, whose writings he studied closely, Richmond argued that this process...

...impelled to sound a note of caution. 'All visible things," he says, "are emblems." And subsequently: "Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some Idea, and body it forth" (Sartor Resartus 55-56). Yet, increasingly, his emphasis falls on material manifestations of the spiritual....

...visible things are emblems. What thou. seest is not there on its own account ; strictly speaking, is riot there at all. Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea and body it forth." * But the analogies of Law are a totally different thing from the analogies of Phenomena and have a...