Book description
"The history of what men has accomplished in this world is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here."
Thomas Carlyle, one of the nineteenth century’s great conservative thinkers, espouses in these lectures presented in 1840 his theory of the supreme importance of individuals in shaping history. Three of the seminal figures he discusses are Dante, Luther and Napoleon. On Great Men is taken from Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, a portion of which can be found in his Selected Writings.
