Still, I think it will be conceded that the twenty years which have elapsed since he accomplished his task are a period of growth rather than decadence in the number and zeal of Carlyle's admirers.

This is no doubt in large measure due to Carlyle's own books.

He has been called the father of modern socialism, and credited with the destruction of political economy.

I am too much out of sympathy with these views to judge them fairly.
But I suppose it cannot be denied that Carlyle fascinates thousands who do not accept him as an infallible, or even as a fallible, guide, or that they, as well as his disciples, devour the pages of Froude.
Nothing annoyed Carlyle more than to be told that he confounded might with right.

He declared that, on the contrary, he had never said, and would never say, a word for power which was not founded on justice.