French Revolution, according to Carlyle “the open violent revolt, and victory, of disimprisoned Anarchy against corrupt, worn-out Authority, the crowning Phenomenon of our Modern Time,” but for which, he once protested to Mr. Froude, he would not have known what to make of this world at all; it was a sign to him that the God of judgment still sat sovereign at the heart of it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
French Philosophism * Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward