Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. Vol. 2, James Fraser, 1837, p. 33.
Stone avoided all socialization with officials and politicians and unlike most journalists in Washington DC did not attend the many parties that are so common in the nation’s capital.
The three "estates" were the Lords Spiritual (Clergy), Lords Temporal (Aristocracy) and the Commons. The other three estates have been forgotten, but the press is still known as the "fourth estate." See Emanuel Sieyes, s.v. "Voters and Voting," on the Third Estate
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).
