"We hold these truths to be self-evident": it was the fanaticism of truism.

But though Carlyle had no real respect for liberty, he had a real reverence for anarchy.

He admired elemental energy.

The violence which repelled most men from the Revolution was the one thing that attracted him to it.
While a Whig like Macaulay respected the Girondists but deplored the Mountain, a Tory like Carlyle rather liked the Mountain and quite unduly despised the Girondists.

This appetite for formless force belongs, of course, to the forests, to Germany.