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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On He... ...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, H... ... PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...vian mythologies: that they have been pre- served so well. In that strange island Iceland,—burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of th... ...wift subtle Demon, of the brood of the Jotuns. The savages of the Ladrones Islands too (say some Spanish voyag- ers) thought Fire, which they never ha... ...wift subtle Demon, of the brood of the Jotuns. The savages of the Ladrones Islands too (say some Spanish voyag- ers) thought Fire, which they never ha... ... superficial, small; for the uses of the day merely.—But does not the very Fox know something of Nature? Exactly so: it knows where the geese lodge! T... ...t this and the like of this? Nay, it should be considered too, that if the Fox had not a certain vulpine morality, he could not even know where the ge... ...y; and he looked so strange, among the elegant Eu- phemisms, dainty little Falklands, didactic Chillingworths, diplomatic Clarendons! Consider him. An...
...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters...