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Thomas Carlyle was an important Scottish thinker, philosopher, historian, and writer. He played an essential role in developing intellectual thought in Victorian-era Britain. This book is the biography of the prominent thinker following his life from the earliest years through all the important events of his life and to his death. Great attention is paid to the social and political impact of Carlyle's writings and lectures.

'A great man, ' says Hegel, 'condemns the world to the task of explaining him.' Emphatically does the remark apply to Thomas Carlyle. When he began to leave his impress in literature, he was treated as a confusing and inexplicable element. Opinion oscillated between the view of James Mill, that Carlyle was an insane rhapsodist, and that of Jeffrey, that he was afflicted with a chronic craze for singularity