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Hero-worship endures forever while man endures.
Thomas Carlyle • On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
In his 1906 edition of Carlyle’s history, John Holland Rose cogently defined Carlyle’s achievement: “[He] asserted that no visible and finite object had ever spurred men on to truly great and far-reaching movements. Only the invisible and the infinite could do that” (1:xiv).
Thomas Carlyle • On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
In his first important attempt at social commentary, “Signs of the Times” (1829), Carlyle noticed that society’s drift toward efficiency and uniformity had penetrated to the deepest layers of the human psyche: “For the same habit regulates not our modes of action alone, but our modes of thought and feeling. Men are grown mechanical in head and in h
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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
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What the prophets were to morality, so too were the poets to beauty.
Thomas Carlyle • On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation,—till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.