“We are no longer instinctively driven to apprehend, and lay to heart, what is Good and Lovely, but rather to inquire, as onlookers, how it is produced, whence it comes, whither it goes. Our favourite Philosophers have no love and no hatred; they stand among us not to do, nor to create anything, but as a sort of Logic mills, to grind out the true causes and effects of all that is done and created.”

— Thomas Carlyle

1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

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