 | Laurence Gronlund - 1891 - 280 str.
...whole truth ; it must be supplemented by Carlyle's idea that " the history of what man has accomplished is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here." Again, it is true that an idea, to be successful, must be in harmony with surrounding conditions; and... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1891 - 894 str.
...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 str.
...Divinity," that the "History of the world is but the Biography of great men," and that universal history "is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here."296 This clear enunciation of the "great man theory of history" has frequently been taken out... | |
 | Robert C. Tucker - 1995 - 196 str.
...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... | |
 | Peter Mackridge - 1996 - 218 str.
...with the statement that 'Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom 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... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - 1997 - 404 str.
...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, of whatsoever...general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 str.
...yardstick. For Carlyle the topic of great men is an "illimitable" one, since they are "the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of 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... | |
 | Jared M. Diamond - 1997 - 540 str.
...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... | |
 | William L. Van Deburg - 2008 - 314 str.
...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... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 284 str.
...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,... | |
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Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. 
