"The forms of government appear to him almost without meaning; such subjects as the extension of suffrage, the guarantee of any kind of political right, are evidently in his eyes pitiful things, materialism more or less disguised. What he requires is that men should grow morally better, that the number of just men should increase: one wise man more in the world would be to him a fact of more importance than ten political revolutions."
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Giuseppe Mazzini, 'On the Genius and Tendency of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle', British and Foreign Review (October 1843), quoted in Essays: Selected from the Writings, Literary, Political, and Religious, of Joseph Mazzini, ed. William Clarke (1887), p. 139
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Thomas Carlyle
1795 â 1881
schottischer Essayist und Historiker
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