...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...is at bottom the history of the great men who have 1 •" worked here.] They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the m'odelers, the patterns, and...

...E. CORPREW. Jndian Creek, Norfolk County, fa. Biography an Aid to History. Carlyle has said that " 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." This was a favorite doctrine of the...

...biography of a good person inspires the living to fill their lives with good deeds. If, as Carlyle says, "the history of what man has accomplished in this...the history of the great men who have worked here," then this little book is no unimportant contribution to the history of the American people in the South...

...the great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men continued to do or attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly...

...the individual. If called upon to choose between them, I would accept the dictum of Carlyle that " the history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here," rather than the doctrine of individual effacement. The sphere of Stanley's influence is, I repeat,...

...dramatic grouping; as a reformer, too arrogant and vituperative to be persuasive. WRITINGS. that ' the history of what man has accomplished in this world,...bottom the history of the great men who have worked there ; ' wonderfully picturesque and dramatic, much like a revolutionary epic. Sartor Resartus (1834),...

...FREDERICK III. CLARK PRIZE ORATION. ,, T TNIVERSAL history, the history of what man has accomU plished in this world, is at bottom the history of the great men." Nowhere is this fact more clearly illustrated than in the history of Germany. Her condition in the...

...cannot resist giving a short quotation from the first page of Carlyle's " Lectures" : — "As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here." Now read Macaulay : — " Society, indeed, has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its...

...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)"...this world, is at bottom the History of the Great) \_Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns,...

...whole truth ; it must be supplemented by Carlyle's idea that " the history of what man has accomplished is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." Again, it is true that an idea, to be successful, must be in harmony with surrounding conditions; and...