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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

Thomas Carlyle
Hero, Forever, Worship
Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Thomas Carlyle
Worship, Wonder, Transcendent
'On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic' (1841) 'The Hero as Divinity'

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Thomas Carlyle
Worship, Wonder, Bases
Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.370

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

Thomas Carlyle
Eye, Men, Worship
Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.116

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

Thomas Carlyle
Beautiful, Character, Worship
Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.23, Lulu.com

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Thomas Carlyle
Hero, Worship, Certain
Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.216

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

Thomas Carlyle
Men, Doe, Worship
Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.100, Lulu.com

Society is founded on hero-worship.

Thomas Carlyle
Hero, Worship, Hero Worship
Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.15

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