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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 195 pages

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History is a series of lectures by Thomas Carlyle on great figures and the human impulse to revere them. Across examples from Odin and Muhammad to Dante, Shakespeare, Luther, Cromwell, and Napoleon, Carlyle explores how heroes shape history. Listen for its forceful prose and influential reflections on leadership, belief, and historical change.

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ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP,

AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY

By Thomas Carlyle

Transcriber's Note:

The text is taken from the printed "Sterling Edition" of Carlyle's

Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications made in the etext version: Italicized text is delimited by underscores, thusly. The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into

Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] juxtaposed. Otherwise, the punctuation and spelling of the print version have been retained.

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  1. ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY
  2. LECTURES ON HEROES.

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