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... social obligations . The widespread social and economic misery was acute enough to impress the most unsophisticated observer , and Carlyle's letters indicate that he was always keenly alive to it . The Industrial Revolution was taking ...
... social obligations . The widespread social and economic misery was acute enough to impress the most unsophisticated observer , and Carlyle's letters indicate that he was always keenly alive to it . The Industrial Revolution was taking ...
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... social criticism developed naturally from the foregoing . Wherever or in what shape vital powers are at work , the test of their working well or ill lies in the degree of silence or unconsciousness in their life element . " Silence is ...
... social criticism developed naturally from the foregoing . Wherever or in what shape vital powers are at work , the test of their working well or ill lies in the degree of silence or unconsciousness in their life element . " Silence is ...
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... social existence . But the institution of mon- archy had found its origin in serving a social need ; had grown , ripened , withered as all institutions eventually do . When Louis XVI ascended the throne he represented a " Solecism ...
... social existence . But the institution of mon- archy had found its origin in serving a social need ; had grown , ripened , withered as all institutions eventually do . When Louis XVI ascended the throne he represented a " Solecism ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
BACKGROUNDS ΙΟ | 10 |
CARLYLES PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY | 54 |
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