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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...eep,” said Morton, “than that bearded men be forced to weep.” Knox was the constitutional opposition-party in Scotland: the Nobles of the country, cal... ...easured euphemisms, philosophies, parliamentary elo- quences, Ship-moneys, Monarchies of Man; a most constitu- tional, unblamable, dignified set of me... ...? They are become dreadfully dull men! One breaks down often enough in the constitutional eloquence of the admirable Pym, with his “seventhly and last... ...ld not touch the work but with gloves on! Neither, on the whole, does this constitutional tolerance of 177 On Heroes the Eighteenth century for the o... ...d have demanded! It was Superstition, Fanaticism, disgraceful ignorance of Constitutional Philosophy to insist on the other thing!—Liberty to tax ones... ...here: who or what then is to follow? “Free Parliament,” right of Election, Constitutional Formulas of one sort or the other,—the thing is a hungry Fac...

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