Thomas Carlyle Quotes
A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.
Actually, most extreme conservatives do live in different centuries at the same time. One is the century in which they are living physically. The second is an earlier one—the century from which his ideology stems. Likewise, most liberal reformers and revolutionists also live in two centuries. The first is the one in which they live physically. The second is in the future where their hopes, dreams, and reforms lie.
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish essayist and historian, Member of Parliament, Remark while reading the letters of Oliver Cromwell
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Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
Most historians and politicians believe the reverse to be true and that is WHY history should be studied. For them, history is a means to an end. For Taylor’s point of view, it is the end.
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841), he argued that the actions of the "Great Man" play a key role in history, claiming that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men". Other major works include The French Revolution: A History, 3 vols (1837) and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vols (1858–65).
