Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle Pt. 2

The Aristocrats discuss chapters 3-4 of Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle. Latter Day Pamphlets were published in 1850 in the aftermath of the liberal revolutions of 1948. In this episode, we discuss each chapter's main themes and best quotes, such as the problems with the government, why talented men shy away from working in it, and why voting isn't an effective means for finding the best people to run the government. "So he gallops stormfully along, thinking it is forward and forward; and alas, it is only round and round, out of one old lane into the other; -nay (according to some) "he mistakes his own footprints, which of course grow ever more numerous, for the sign of a more and more frequented road;" and his despair is hourly increasing."