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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the most important social commentators of his time, he presented many lectures during his lifetime with certain acclaim in the Victorian era. One of those conferences resulted in his famous work On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History where he explains that the key role in history lies in the actions of the "Great Man", claiming that "History is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
életév: 4 december 1795 5 február 1881

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Of good so­ci­ety Teufels­dröckh ap­pears to have seen little, or has mostly for­got­ten what he saw. He speaks-out with a strange plain­ness; calls many things by their mere dic­tion­ary names.
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On the other hand, let us be free to ad­mit, he is the most un­equal writer breath­ing.
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Often after some such feat, he will play tru­ant for long pages, and go dawdling and dream­ing, and mum­bling and maun­der­ing the merest com­mon­places, as if he were asleep with eyes open, which in­deed he is.
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