The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes

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Great man theory of history History

Author

Thomas Carlyle

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On Heroes

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English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Philosopher Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Divinity." 5 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present

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Workers' rights Human rights Citizen and state

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Thomas Carlyle
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Past and Present
Language
English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Another quote from the 1840s

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.... Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Democracy

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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 1, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 1, ch. 17.

Another quote about History

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

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History
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Henry Ford
Source
Chicago Tribune
Medium
Interview Newspapers
Language
English
Time
1916 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Ford, Henry. Interviewed by Charles N. Wheeler. Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916.