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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture I (The Hero as Divinity) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle defines his key term and claims that admiration for one higher than oneself is the vivifying influence in human life.
Citation: "Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man" — 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-q4)
