By Patrick WADDINGTON
1981
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Maybe even there was something lacking in his understanding of the finer points of English speech, intonation and expression. On the evening of Thursday 4 June, for example, at a dinner-party given by the widow of the late Bishop of Norwich, Mrs Catherine Stanley, he had considerable difficulty in partaking of the genteel conversation. The white ties bothered him; and although he was not bored, he vented some of his mental discomfiture on poor Harriet Grote, the wife of the historian. A day earlier, he had himself been led an awkward semantic dance by Thomas Carlyle, the idiosyncratic sage of Chelsea.
On this occasion, as in later years, the two philosophers quarrelled - amicably enough - over the meaning and place of socialism, revolution and anarchy. Herzen called Carlyle's expressed belief that despotism would save the world his 'little grain of madness'. This remark has relevance to the conversation which took place between Carlyle and Turgenev, as we shall see; but it would be wrong to exaggerate the fairly distant relations which Herzen enjoyed with the Scot. Possibly some other link should be preferred.
Herzen called Carlyle's expressed belief that despotism would save the world his 'little grain of madness'. This remark has relevance to the conversation which took place between Carlyle and Turgenev, as we shall see; but it would be wrong to exaggerate the fairly distant relations which Herzen enjoyed with the Scot. Possibly some other link should be preferred. Monckton Milnes, whom we shall be looking at shortly, is as likely a go-between as any, though the German critic Varnhagen von Ense could be another possibility.