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...(which means at best only the manner of _telling_ us
your thought, your belief or disbelief, about a thing) is the triumph and
true work of what intellect he has: alas, this is as if you should
_overturn_ the tree, and instead of green boughs, leaves and fruits, show
us ugly taloned roots turned up into the air,--and no growth, only death
and misery going on!
For the Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also;
a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
A sad case for
him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in
his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than
that he will not get. We call those ages in which he gets so low the
mournfulest, sickest and meanest of all ages. The world's heart is
palsied, sick: how can any limb of it be whole? Genuine Acting ceases in
all departments of the world's work; dexterous Similitude of Acting begins.
The world's wages are pocketed, the...
Carlyle, Thomas
Excerpt from On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History ·
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Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. Coming from a strictly Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher. However, while at the University of Edinburgh he lost his Christian faith. Nevertheless Calvinist values remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order.
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