...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...VIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HE... ... T rue Religion.” [May 8, 1840.] LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM. F ROM THE FIRST RUDE TIMES of Paganism among the Scandinavians in th... ...outness and noble-mindedness had dwelt in these rustic thoughtful peoples? Biblical critics seem agreed that our own Book of Job was written in that r... ... themselves “like clouds;” melt into the Blue as clouds do, and not be! He figures the Earth, in the Arab fashion, Sale tells us, as an immense Plain ... ... call imagination, fancy, un- derstanding, and so forth, are but different figures of the same Power of Insight, all indissolubly connected with each ... .... Him we must leave to future times. Johnson, Burns, Rousseau, three great figures from a prior time, from a far inferior state of circumstances, will...

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............................. 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Koran trans. Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Ma... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...y descended to deliberate invention and artful 1 Mahommed and the Rise of Islam, in “Heroes of Nations” series. 8 The Koran rhetoric. He, in fact, a... ...ilised and freshly blended to suit the special exigencies of the occasion. Biblical reminiscences, Rabbinic legends, Chris- tian traditions mostly dra... ...er of the development and growth of any plan in the mind of the founder of Islam, or of the circumstances by which he was surrounded and influ- enced.... ...oldly to declare to the ignorant pagan Meccans that God had revealed those Biblical histories to him. But there can be no doubt, from the constant ide... ... others are figurative. But they whose hearts are given to err, follow its figures, craving discord, craving an interpretation; yet none knoweth its i... ... See verse 4. T radition has expanded the word ansab, so as to include all figures, and hence the strict observers of the letter of the Koran forbid t...

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