"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time;
the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance
of it has altogether vanished like a dream." —Scottish historian, essayist
and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Lectures on Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1841)Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Quote of the Day (Thomas Carlyle, on Books and the ‘Audible Voice of the Past’)
"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time;
the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance
of it has altogether vanished like a dream." —Scottish historian, essayist
and philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Lectures on Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1841)
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