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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture I (The Hero as Divinity), opening (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle states the thesis of the whole series in his first lecture of 5 May 1840: history is the outward realization of the thoughts of great men sent into the world.
Citation: "Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture I (The Hero as Divinity), opening (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q1)
