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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture I (The Hero as Divinity) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle compares an age of doubt and distress to dry fuel waiting for a spark.
Citation: "The great man, with his free force direct out of God's own hand, is the lightning" — 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-q3)
