This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.Thomas Carlyle
“No pressure, no diamonds.”
Scottish historian and essayist · 1795 – 1881
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish historian, philosopher and essayist whose works, including Sartor Resartus and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, shaped Victorian thought. His history of the French Revolution is regarded as a classic of the genre.
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