Thomas Carlyle
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"He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Printing."--Sartor Resartus "The History of the world is but the Biography of great men."--On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (1841) by Thomas Carlyle "Without question the views of Carlyle could well be advocated by Adolph Hitler today , and that , should fascism develop in Great Britain , the ideology expressed by Carlyle will be a most important weapon in its hands."-- The Conquest of Power (1937) by Albert Weisbord |
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher.
He is known for such works as Sartor Resartus (1831), The French Revolution: A History (1837), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (1841) and translations such as German Romance which helped introduced German Romanticism to the English-speaking world.
His reputation declined in the 20th century as some of his views became increasingly unfashionable, particularly his Germanophilia in the aftermaths of World War I and World War II especially, when he came to be perceived as a progenitor of fascism.
