Excerpt from Social Classes in a Republic In Past and Present Carlyle had a pungent word about the function of preaching. This speaking man, he said, whom have we to compare with him? The Speaking Function, this of Truth, coming to us with a living voice, nay, in a living shape, and as a concrete practical exemplar; this, with all our Writing and Printing Functions, has a perennial place. Will he discover our new real Satan, whom he has to fight; or go on droning through his.

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