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The Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, in his fascinating and unsettling book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, embraced what has come to be known as the “Great Man Theory.”
How Much Does the President Really Matter? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, in his fascinating and unsettling book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, embraced what has come to be known as the “Great Man Theory.”
How Much Does the President Really Matter? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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His views were popularized through a series of histories, such as The French Revolution (1837), and his essays On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841).
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ATTRIBUTION: GERALD W. JOHNSON, American Heroes and Hero-Worship, p. 11 (1943).
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Of these courses the most important was that on 'Heroes and Hero-Worship,' in which he clearly stated the doctrine on which thereafter he laid increasing stress, that the strength of humanity is in its strong men, the natural leaders, equipped to rule by power of intellect, of spirit, and of executive force.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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In 1839 he wrote, in his dashing style, upon _Chartism_, and about the same time read a course of lectures upon _Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Carlyle's "Heroes and Hero-Worship" -- curiously enough -- was published about the same time as Tolstoi's "War and Peace."
The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918
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First, a writer as he advances in life uses more strange words and involved constructions, as is seen on comparing Carlyle's "Latter-Day Pamphlets" and his "Heroes and Hero-Worship".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Society came to think that the Apostle of Hero-Worship had engaged in a discreditable intrigue, and utterly false and demeaning notions as to the relations of Carlyle and his wife got into currency, and for these, when disputed, Froude was invariably/[Page xlvi]/quoted as an authority.
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A friend has been good enough to come and read to me all day in 'Hero-Worship'; but I cannot write any more now.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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