...played by Natural Selection. There are others — Carlyle may serve as their spokesman — who tell us, 'Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is, at the bottom, the History of the Great Men who have worked here : all things which we see standing accomplished...

...purpose, and, if possible, to be like him in some similarity of nature ? " As I take it," says Carlyle, " Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...is at bottom the history of the great men who have \T >rked here." So all absorbing seems in his philosophy the leadership of the leaders. We may go farther...

...present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do B or to attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material...

...attempt. Thomas Carlyle has said, in his Lectures on Hero-worship, that "the history of whatever man hae accomplished in this world, is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." But the masterly view« of human destiny, taken from such hills of vision, as truly great men furnish,...

...Every original man is worthy of * For instance in the Lectures, page 1, and passim ' For, as I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...bottom the history of the great men who have worked there.' 'notice — nay, in the long run, who and what else is?' Himself deficient in the faculty of...

...new epochs in the world's history. In the introduction he says that ' Heroes were the leaders of men, the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men has contrived to do or to attain.' He marks out the following classes of Heroes. 1. The Hero as Divinity...

...did. " A large topic, indeed an illimitable one, wide F2 as Universal history ; for, as I take it, Universal history, — the history of what man has...accomplished in this world, — is at bottom the history of great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men these great ones ; the modellers, patterns,...

...assent to the doctrine which is thus eloquently laid down by one who has made heroes his study : " Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom, the History GREAT MEN. 15 of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones...

...great men, says : — " I take it Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in the world is at bottom, the history of the great men who have worked here. All that we see accomplished in the world, is the realization of thoughts that dwell in great men....

...— another "Force of Nature" — comes forth to destroy the old and to found a new dispensation. " Universal History, the History of what man has accomplished...the History of the Great Men who have worked here. These were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,...