...creation or fresh suggestion appears. There is substantial truth in the view of a great writer that " the history of what man has accomplished in this world...bottom the history of the great men who have worked there." -f Herbert Spencer, it is true, lightly esteems the theory, and asks in reply — Whence comes...

...history is a doctrine of election. "The history of what man has accomplished in this world," he says, " is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here ; " and in explaining, for instance, German doings, in 1870, or a century before, he would speak only...

...what he calls ' The Great-Man Theory,' or the theory according to 1 Study of Sociology, p. 60. which ' the history of what man has accomplished in this world...the history of the great men who have worked here.' 1 This, he says, is the theory of the benighted childhood of all of us ; but the moment science examines...

...Theory,' or the theory according to 1 Study of Sociology, p. CO. which ' the history of what man lias accomplished in this world is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here.' l This, he says, is the theory of the benighted childhood of all of us ; but the moment science examines...

...great men who have wrought : 'They were the leaders of men. these great ones; the modellers, pattern?, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men conirived to do or to attain; all things that we sec standing accomplished in the world are properly...

...in the king. Carlyle says — ' Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in the world, is at bottom, the history of the great men who have worked here.' Buckle says — 'The history of every civilized country is the history of its intellectual development,...

...Conte. BERKELEY, CAL. 0 JOHN WILLIAMSON NEVIN, 1803-1886.1 " As I take it," says Thomas Carlyle, " universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...history of the great men who have worked here. They were 1 The Life and Work of John Williamson Nevin, DD, LL. D. By Theodore Appel, DD Philadelphia : Reformed...

...cannot resist giving a short quotation from the first page of Carlyle's " Lectures" : — "As I take it, universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here." Now read Macanlay : — " Society, indeed, has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its...

...of these natural opportunities his greatest industrial influence has been felt. As Carlyle tells us, "universal history, the history of what man has accomplished...the history of the great men who have worked here." So, indeed, is a narraWILLIAM G. BADGER, President, Bunker Hill Association. tivc of the influence...

...of the facts of history in their relations to the past and present: " As I take it," says Carlyle, " universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world is at the bottom the history of the great men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great...