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Thomas Carlyle

aka The Sage of Chelsea

1795 CE – 1881 CE·Victorian Era·Historical

Scottish essayist, historian, philosopher. "Sage of Chelsea". "Undoubted head of English letters", Victorian "secular prophet". The French Revolution (1837) - passionate intensity revolutionizing historical writing. On Heroes, Hero-Worship (1841) - Great Man theory. Sartor Resartus. Rejected philosophical skepticism for German idealism. Coined "meaning of life". Shaped Victorian intellectual culture.

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Hamilton

2015·Musical·Lin-Manuel Miranda

as “Thomas Carlyle”

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Wikidata Q151403

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