CARLYLE ON CHANGE. [To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.,
Sin,—The following quotation from Carlyle's "Lectures on Heroes" is singularly appropriate as a corroboration of the quotation from Dr. Saleeby (see essay on " Change " in the Spectator of February 15th), in which energy is stated to be the manifestation of the Universal Being:— "The word wuotan, which is the original form of Odin, a word spread as name of their chief Divinity, over all the Teutonic nations everywhere ; this word, which connects itself, according to Grimm, with the Latin vadere, with the English wade and suchlike, means primarily movement, source of movement, power; and is the fit name of the highest god, not of any man. The word signifies Divinity, he says, among the old Saxon, German, and all Teutonic nations."
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