...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On He... ...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, H... ... SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ... PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ..., in any way. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim... ...tributes such things to Allegory. It was a play of poetic minds, say these theorists; a shadowing forth, in allegorical fable, in personifi- cation an... ...er to be alive! 9 On Heroes I find, therefore, that though these Allegory theorists are on the way towards truth in this matter, they have not reache... ...n unseen Hero,—nobody publishing newspaper paragraphs about his nobleness; voting pieces of plate to him! However, he was not lost; nothing is lost. R... ...fect government for that country; no ballot- box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it...

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