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Updated: June 25, 2025
Emerson says of the mediaeval architects, "they builded better than they knew." Carlyle felt more softly than he said, and could not have been trusted to execute one of his own Rhadamanthine decrees. Scratch the skin of the Tartar and you find beneath the despised humanitarian.
The dramatis personae are, indeed, little more than moral or immoral principles incarnate. There is no growth in them, no human variableness or complexity; it is "Every Man in his Humor" over again, with the humor left out. Densdeth is an impossible rascal; Churm, a scarcely more possible Rhadamanthine saint.
Once more the Rhadamanthine fact is: Voltaire, as King's Chamberlain, was bound, without any promise, to forbear, and rigidly suppress such an AKAKIA against the King's Perpetual President. But withal let candid readers consider how difficult it was to do.
As indeed was to be said still of most of his performances, especially the poetical; a sickly shadow of the parish-church still hanging over them, which he could by no means recognize for sickly. Imprimatur nevertheless was the concluding word, with these grave abatements, and rhadamanthine admonitions. To all which Sterling listened seriously and in the mildest humor.
And truly, as we often observe, the Laws of Fact are still severer than Friedrich was: so that, in the long-run, perhaps it is beautifulest of all for a King, who is just, to be rhadamanthine in important cases. Exulting Daun, instead of Bohemia for winter-quarters, pushes out now for the prize of Saxony itself.
She looked at me reproachfully with puzzled eyes such great, grey, beautiful, sea-green eyes! and then drew a long breath. And she went back to her bubbles, and together we watched them go as they floated away into the valley, wild with excitement as to whether my bubble or her bubble would go farthest before it burst till the Rhadamanthine summons came, and the Bubble-Blower went to bed.
And so it was that the great dramatic poet of the nation, whose plays were daily proving their vitality in scores of theaters and were giving pleasure to millions of readers, was treated oftentimes with incredible severity by pompous Rhadamanthine critics who did not see that they were thereby making themselves and their critical pretensions slightly ridiculous.
For the rest, that Friedrich Wilhelm's intentions and Rhadamanthine regulations, in regard to him, were fulfilled in every point, we will by no means affirm. Rules of such exceeding preciseness, if grounded here and there only on the SIC-VOLO, how could they be always kept, except on the surface and to the eye merely?
I wish his Majesty had been a thought more equal, when he was so rhadamanthine! Schlubhut he hanged, Schlubhut being only Schlubhut's chattel; this musketeer, his Majesty's own chattel, he did not hang, but set him shouldering arms again, after some preliminary dusting!
This gentleman promised with an inclination, and Peter continued: "But if, as you say, you're not for helping the young lady, how came you to arrange this interview with the great model?" "Precisely to stop her short. The great model will find her very bad. Her judgements, as you probably know, are Rhadamanthine." "Unfortunate creature!" said Biddy. "I think you're cruel."
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