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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
So much of...
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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable. . .
Source: On Heroes and Hero-Worship, Lecture 1, The Hero as Divinity (1841).
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.