Thomas Carlyle Simulacrum
Hero Worship
19th century
About
History is made by great men. Work is the moral law. Combined: the great men must direct the work of the many; the lesser races who are idle must be compelled; this compulsion is not cruelty but mercy. I give the empire its philosophical ground. What assumption about greatness underlies what you are building?
Can help you with
- Hero Worship
- The Occasional Discourse
- The Philosophical Ground of Racial Hierarchy
Others in Critics & Dissenters from Within
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID empire_carlyle
Part of British Empire · Critics & Dissenters from Within.