Carlyle, should I say turn out to be a pantheist: the only being that exist is G-d, though G-d does not exist as an individual being but rather through rocks, through plants, through animals, and through man.
Carlyle, in an article titled “Shooting Niagara,” went over to the Southern side of the USA civil war. He said that the Negro race was inferior, that the only destiny possible for the Negro was slavery, and that he was on the side of the Southern states.
Carlyle had no faith in democracy. He believed in the superiority of the German race. He could be understood as a precursor to Nazism. He not only believed in the superiority of the various Germanic nations but also in the superiority of England, Holland, and the various Scandinavian countries.
There is a German anthology of his work, published during the First World War titled “Work and Do Not Despair.” On it is possible to understand the effects of Carlyle’s thought.
Please read “Sartor Resartus,” “On Heroes, Heroworship & Heroic History.”