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Quotation from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
“The lies, which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man, are disgraceful to ourselves only”
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture II (The Hero as Prophet) (Project Gutenberg #1091)
Carlyle rejects the old European picture of Mahomet as a scheming impostor.
Citation: "The lies, which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man, are disgraceful to ourselves only" — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, Lecture II (The Hero as Prophet) (Project Gutenberg #1091). (id on-heroes-hero-worship-q5)
