 | William Hurrell Mallock - Equality - 1882 - 292 pages
...what he calls ' The Great-Man Theory,' or the theory according to 1 Study of Sociology, p. 60. which ' the history of what man has accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here.' 1 This, he says, is the theory of the benighted... | |
 | Robert Paton - Church history - 1884 - 184 pages
...of the facts of history in their relations to the past and present: " As I take it," says Carlyle, " universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and, in a e»-i wide sense,... | |
 | New England - 1898 - 836 pages
...development of these natural opportunities his greatest industrial influence has been felt. As Carlyle tells us, "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." So, indeed, is a narraWILLIAM G. BADGER,... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache (hon.) - 1884 - 456 pages
...cannot resist giving a short quotation from the first page of Carlyle's " Lectures" : — "As I take it, 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." Now read Macanlay : — " Society, indeed,... | |
 | Religion - 1891 - 750 pages
...Conte. BERKELEY, CAL. 0 JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN, 1803-1886.1 " As I take it," says 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 1 The Life and Work of John Williamson... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
...present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, 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... | |
 | James Marion Sims - Medicine - 1884 - 526 pages
...Remark ly Dr. WW Johnston. The great apostle of hero worship has said that " Universal history ... is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here. . . . All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 930 pages
...founts. I fully agree with Mr. Carlyle — it seems to me the most valuable lesson he taught — that "universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...world, is, at the bottom, the history of the great meu who have worked here : " that all " things which we see standing in this world are, properly, the... | |
 | Rose Elizabeth Cleveland - Middle Ages - 1885 - 212 pages
...succeeding generations. Tims do we enter into the past and begin the study of history. Carlyle says : " 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 luen, these great... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1885 - 490 pages
...present. A large topic; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, 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... | |
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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. 
