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Quotation from The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
“Sterling's bodily disease was the expression, under physical conditions, of the too vehement life which, under the moral, the intellectual and other aspects, incessantly struggled within him”
The Life of John Sterling, Part II, Ch. VI
Carlyle's interpretation of the illness as the outward form of Sterling's restless temperament.
Citation: "Sterling's bodily disease was the expression, under physical conditions, of the too vehement life which, under the moral, the intellectual and other aspects, incessantly struggled within him" — Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part II, Ch. VI. (id life-of-john-sterling-q9)
