Carlyle was closer to the evangelical worldview than his champions and detractors have imagined, for the moral economy of his “Everlasting Yea” turned out to be the Protestant ethic. “Love not pleasure, love God,” Teufelsdrockh admonishes in Sartor Resartus; “Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God’s name!”
