...influence of his chosen heroes, and to suppress and understate the influence of their coadjutors. " Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked there." " All things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material...

...creation or fresh suggestion appears. There is substantial truth in the view of a great writer that " the history of what man has accomplished in this world...bottom the history of the great men who have worked there." -f Herbert Spencer, it is true, lightly esteems the theory, and asks in reply — Whence comes...

...creation or fresh suggestion appears. There is substantial truth in the view of a great writer that "the history of what man has accomplished in this...bottom the history of the - great men who have worked there." -f Herbert Spencer, it is true, lightly esteems the theory, and asks in reply — Whence comes...

...history is a doctrine of election. "The history of what man has accomplished in this world," he says, " is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here ; " and in explaining, for instance, German doings, in 1870, or a century before, he would speak only...

...what he calls ' The Great-Man Theory,' or the theory according to 1 Study of Sociology, p. 60. which ' the history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here.' 1 This, he says, is the theory of the benighted childhood of all of us ; but the moment science examines...

...Theory,' or the theory according to 1 Study of Sociology, p. CO. which ' the history of what man lias accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here.' l This, he says, is the theory of the benighted childhood of all of us ; but the moment science examines...

...in the king. Carlyle says — ' Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in the world, is at bottom, the history of the great men who have worked here.' Buckle says — 'The history of every civilized country is the history of its intellectual development,...

...realization. Joseph Le Conte. BERKELEY, CAL. 0 JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN, 1803-1886.1 " As I take it," says Thomas Carlyle, " universal history, the history of...the history of the great men who have worked here. They were 1 The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin, DD, LL. D. By Theodore Appel, DD Philadelphia...

...present. A large topic ; indeed, an illimitable one ; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it, Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished...the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators,...

...cannot resist giving a short quotation from the first page of Carlyle's " Lectures" : — "As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here." Now read Macanlay : — " Society, indeed, has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its...