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Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. J.M. Dent, London. 1929. 

A near contemporary, the rabidly brilliant Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle, took Barberi s question a step further by asking, in 1833, how all this could have been achieved by a man devoid of looks, charm, or intellect. Carlyle blamed Cagliostro s success on the eighteenth century itself, which was not, he said, an age of reason and enlightenment, as is usually claimed, but an age of fraud and superstition. 

Elisa von der Recke, who did so much to make Cagliostro an immortal, died in April 1833, the same year that the Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle... 

Thomas Carlyle was confident that he could. His essay on Cagliostro s two flights set out to explore the same central mystery as Casanova s Soliloque—the mystery of Cagliostro s success. How, Carlyle asked, in an age... 

However, this setback was nothing compared to some historical examples. According to Robert Hendrickson in The Literary Life, British historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) had to rewrite the entire first volume of his History of the French Revolution when a maid burned the manuscript, mistaking it for trash. In a fit of rage, the wife of William Ainsworth (1805-1882) tossed the manuscript for his Latin dictionary into the fire, and it took Ainsworth three years to rewrite it. 

The Romantic view has remained particularly influential among prose writers as well as poets. Thomas Carlyle lamented, Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart as well as in hand (Carlyle 1915, p. 228), and Charles Dickens satirized the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which met for the first time in 1831, as The Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything (Dickens 1837, pp. 397-413). Its members are depicted as having lost all humanitarian 35 1-pathies and values, as socially irresponsible and emotionally and morally deficient. 

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), friend of Wordsworth, Coleridge and other Romantics (a term as fraught as Bloomsbury ), as well as of Thomas Carlyle, played a key part in disseminating (as well as distorting) Kantian thought in England (see also note 36 below). For Walter Pater s version of the phrase see the conclusion to his The Renaissance (1873) ... 

Carlyle, T. (1971). On history. In Thomas carlyle Selected writings (pp. 51-58). New York Penguin Books. 

Whilst prominent social commentators including Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and William Morris developed the pollution issue into a more general anti-industrial rhetoric, and into an indictment of Victorian values in general, this view was not prominent in mainstream anti-pollution debate/ The movement, however, did reflect the influence of a broad-based campaign to improve both the health and amenities of British urban life. 

On this regard, it is worth recalling a sentence of Thomas Carlyle, a famous Scottish essayist, who said The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong . 

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