Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, — Necessity and Free Will.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

Essay (1832-08), “Goethe’s Works,” Foreign Quarterly Review, No. 19, Art. 1
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A review of Goethes Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzer Hand [Goethe's Works. Completed, Final Edition (1827-1830). Reprinted in Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1845).