“What I called the perplexed jungle of Paganism sprang, we may say, out of many roots: every admiration, adoration of a star or natural object, was a root or fibre of a root; but Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown.”

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity

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

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