"He saw human life and earthly happenings against a vast background of mystic spiritualism, of eternities and immensities; he was an individualist, to whom the development of the race depends on great personal virtues, on heroic abnegation and self-sacrificing activity. His rugged independence made it difficult for his contemporaries to 'place' him; he resolutely refused to be labelled, or to be identified with any specific intellectual, literary or political creed."
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ExistentialistsAcademics from ScotlandPhilosophers from ScotlandConservatives from the United KingdomHistorians from Scotland
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John George Robertson, 'Carlyle', in The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume XIII: The Nineteenth Century II, eds. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller (1916), p. 20
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Thomas Carlyle
1795 â 1881
schottischer Essayist und Historiker
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