Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.
The Case of Wagner: The Twilight of the Idols; Nietsche Contra Wagner; [The Antichrist] (ed. 1896)