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Quotation from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

“Everywhere immeasurable Democracy rose monstrous, loud, blatant, inarticulate as the voice of Chaos”

Thomas Carlyle

Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. I, The Present Time (Project Gutenberg #1140)

Carlyle's description of the European explosion of 1848, which he compares to the irruption of the Northern Barbarians.

Citation: "Everywhere immeasurable Democracy rose monstrous, loud, blatant, inarticulate as the voice of Chaos" — Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. I, The Present Time (Project Gutenberg #1140). (id latter-day-pamphlets-q2)

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