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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
Wonderful Force of...
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realise the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed;
Source: Signs of the Times (1829; first published in Edinburgh Review, no. 98).
-- 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.