On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History¶
Carlyle, T. (1840). On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.
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Primes¶
- Great Man Theory
- Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) is the paradigmatic statement of the position: "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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Carlyle's Heroes does state that universal history is at bottom the history of great men, but not in the exact words the claim puts in quotation marks.
“Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.”
- Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) is the paradigmatic statement of the position: "The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
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