...the history of what man has accomplished in the world is at bottom the history of the great men that have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones, the modeler's patterns, and in a wide sense creators of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to...

...the history of what man has accomplished in the world is at bottom the history of the great men that have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones, tbe modeler's patterns, and in a wide sense creators of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived...

...extremes: on the one hand, the position of Carlyle, in Heroes and Hero-Worship, that "Universal History ... is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," and, on the other hand, the position of the Spencerians, Marxists, and others who have attached little...

...Carlyle began his lectures 'On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History', with the statement that 'Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...the History of the Great Men who have worked here'. That is very much a nineteenthcentury view, but it echoes an assumption of the early Greeks, that the...

...relevance of this yardstick. For Carlyle the topic of great men is an "illimitable" one, since they are "the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,...whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain."19 The great man, in Carlyle's scheme of things, is so inordinately great that the rest of...

...extreme is the view of the historian Thomas Carlyle: "Universal history, the history of what man [sic] has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here." At the opposite extreme is the view of the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, who unlike Carlyle...

...planet no longer is considered the history of its Great Men — those "modellers, patterns, and . . . creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain."1 If the writings of historians provide any measure of a society's sensibilities, it seems...

...scientific approach to their subject, Carlyle saw history not as the product of impersonal forces, but as at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here ... all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result,...

...sie Erfindungen, wie die germanischen Götter, mit denen die Vorlesung beginnt: For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were Carlyle, „On Heroes", Bibl. 331, S. 103. " AaO, S. 145f. leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers,...

..."The common man is nothing to him [Carlyle]," (24445). The opening passage of On Heroes says as much: "The history of what man has accomplished in this...the History of the Great Men who have worked here" (3). The rest are there to be commanded.8 Thoreau never doubts that some men are extraordinary, but...