The young generations of the world, who had in them the freshness of young children, and yet the depth of earnest men, who did not think that they had finished off all things in Heaven and Earth by merely giving them scientific names, but had to gaze direct at them there, with awe and wonder: they felt better what of divinity is in man and Nature; they, without being mad, could worship Nature, and man more than anything else in Nature.


Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840) - The Hero as Divinity

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The young generations of the world, who had in them the freshness of young children, and yet the depth of earnest men, who did not think that they...

The young generations of the world, who had in them the freshness of young children, and yet the depth of earnest men, who did not think that they...

The young generations of the world, who had in them the freshness of young children, and yet the depth of earnest men, who did not think that they...

The young generations of the world, who had in them the freshness of young children, and yet the depth of earnest men, who did not think that they...