John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5997 Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5997 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) |
| QUOTATION: | Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Latter Day Pamphlet, No. 1. (1850.) |
| Note 1. Referring to Political Economy and Social Science, Carlyle also in his Essay on “The Nigger Question” (1849) speaks of “What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.” [back] |