text:  This contempt appears to rest on somewhat plausible grounds; as an instance of it we may take the following passage from the fitful writings of Mr Carlyle:--"Hardened round us encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrappage of traditions hearsays mere words: we call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity and lecture learnedly about it and grind the like of it out of glass and silk but what is it? Whence comes it? Where goes it?"[26] [26] Carlyle on Hero Worship