Quote #61

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

More from Thomas Carlyle

  1. O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
  2. History a distillation of rumor.
  3. A whiff of grapeshot.
  4. The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do.
  5. 'The people may eat grass': hasty words, which fly abroad irrevocable-and will send back tidings.
  6. The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.
  7. To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
  8. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

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