"That regular Carlylean strain which we all know by heart and which the clear-headed among us have so utter a contempt for."
— Thomas Carlyle

January 1, 1970

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ExistentialistsAcademics from ScotlandPhilosophers from ScotlandConservatives from the United KingdomHistorians from Scotland
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Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough (29 September 1859), quoted in The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough, ed. Howard Foster Lowry (1932), p. 151