On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history
by Thomas Carlyle · first published 1840
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…magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. —Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History, 1840
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