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- leading social writer of Victorian England (Horton 604)
- metaphors and allusions; picturesque eloquence obviously that of Scottish Presbyterian pulpit (604)
- couldn't escape impression that religion, though discredited by rationalism, offered the deeper truth (604)
- in transcendentalists found basis for denying rationalism and affirming purposiveness and the higher reality of the spirit (605)
- all history is "the biography of great men" (605)
Works
- Sartor Resartus - "the tailor retailored" (605)
- On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History - disbelief in heroes a symptom of spiritual disease (605)
- The Hero as Divinity
- The Hero as Poet
- Past and Present - Abbot Sampson; how great man can restore sick society (606)
Citation
Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.
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