it is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given. A heroic people chooses heroes, and is happy; a valet or flunkey people chooses sham-heroes, what are called quacks, thinking them heroes, and is not happy.


Past and Present (1843)

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

It is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth ...

It is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth ...

It is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth ...

It is a most important social act; nay, at bottom, the one important social act. Given the men a People choose, the People itself, in its exact worth ...