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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture I (The Hero as Divinity) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Answering the sceptical historians of his day who explain great men away as products of their age, Carlyle treats disbelief in greatness as a smallness in the critic.
Citation: "No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture I (The Hero as Divinity) (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q2)
