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BRITISH INTEREST - Look Before You Leap - T Carlyle Harper's Weekly 1877 T. Nast
BRITISH INTEREST - Look Before You Leap - T Carlyle Harper's Weekly 1877 T. Nast
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BRITISH INTEREST - Look Before You Leap - T Carlyle Harper's Weekly 1877, by Thomas Nast
Wood engraving, 1877.
Image size 13 5/8 x 9 1/8" (34.6 x 23.2 cm).
Publisher : Published by Harper's Weekly. June 23, 1877.
Additional text reads, "T. Carlyle. 'Look before you leap.'"
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, historian and writer. During
the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) Britain considered entering to aid the
Turkish people, an idea that Carlyle was against. He felt the Russians
were the most noble of the two factions and that Czar Alexander II was
both strict and just. The Ottoman Empire on the other hand was in dire
need of reform. In an article he wrote for a newspaper in November of
1876, as tension were rising between the two nations, Carlyle said, "It
seems to me that something very different from war on his behalf is what
the Turk now pressingly needs from England and from all the world;
namely, to be peremptorily informed that we can stand no more of his
attempts to govern in Europe, and that he must 'quam primum' turn his
face to the eastward, for ever quit this side of the Hellespont, and
give up his arrogant ideas of governing anybody but himself."
In this cartoon Carlyle is shown holding back the British lion and
Scottish unicorn from the perilous cliff of war. At the bottom is ruin
in the form of a destroyed city. The Russian bear sits just below them,
holding a Russian helmet out on a stick - the very icon that makes the
United Kingdom want to leap to its death.
The sign above the Scottish unicorn reads, "The (English) newspaper outcry, 'On-To-Russia."
Image size 13 5/8 x 9 1/8" (34.6 x 23.2 cm).
Publisher : Published by Harper's Weekly. June 23, 1877.
Additional text reads, "T. Carlyle. 'Look before you leap.'"
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, historian and writer. During
the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) Britain considered entering to aid the
Turkish people, an idea that Carlyle was against. He felt the Russians
were the most noble of the two factions and that Czar Alexander II was
both strict and just. The Ottoman Empire on the other hand was in dire
need of reform. In an article he wrote for a newspaper in November of
1876, as tension were rising between the two nations, Carlyle said, "It
seems to me that something very different from war on his behalf is what
the Turk now pressingly needs from England and from all the world;
namely, to be peremptorily informed that we can stand no more of his
attempts to govern in Europe, and that he must 'quam primum' turn his
face to the eastward, for ever quit this side of the Hellespont, and
give up his arrogant ideas of governing anybody but himself."
In this cartoon Carlyle is shown holding back the British lion and
Scottish unicorn from the perilous cliff of war. At the bottom is ruin
in the form of a destroyed city. The Russian bear sits just below them,
holding a Russian helmet out on a stick - the very icon that makes the
United Kingdom want to leap to its death.
The sign above the Scottish unicorn reads, "The (English) newspaper outcry, 'On-To-Russia."
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