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Quotation from Chartism by Thomas Carlyle
“Chartism means the bitter discontent grown fierce and mad, the wrong condition therefore or the wrong disposition, of the Working Classes of England”
Chartism, Chapter I (James Fraser, London, 1840 (IA chartism00carluoft))
Carlyle's definition of the movement: not a party programme but a state of mind produced by wrong conditions, which is why suppressing its outward forms cannot end it.
Citation: "Chartism means the bitter discontent grown fierce and mad, the wrong condition therefore or the wrong disposition, of the Working Classes of England" — Thomas Carlyle, Chartism, Chapter I (James Fraser, London, 1840 (IA chartism00carluoft)). (id chartism-q2)
