"Not less am I grateful for the Carlyle eulogium [on Emerson]. I have shed some quite delicious tears over it. This is a world worth abiding in while one man can thus venerate and love another."
— Thomas Carlyle

January 1, 1970

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ExistentialistsAcademics from ScotlandPhilosophers from ScotlandConservatives from the United KingdomHistorians from Scotland
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George Eliot to Sara Hennell (December 1848), quoted in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals, Vol. I, ed. J. W. Cross (1885), p. 193