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The grand summary of a man's spiritual condition, what brings out all his herohood and insight, or all his flunkeyhood and horn-eyed dimness, is this question put to him, What man dost thou honour?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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As for me I love the Book and man, and their noble rustic herohood and manhood: -- one voice as of a living man amid such jabberings of galvanized corpses: _Ach Gott!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The grand summary of a man's spiritual condition, what brings out all his herohood and insight, or all his flunkyhood and horn-eyed dimness, is this question put to him, What man dost thou honour?
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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As for me I love the Book and man, and their noble rustic herohood and manhood: ” one voice as of a living man amid such jabberings of galvanized corpses: Ach Gott!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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