What Thomas Carlyle thinks about democracy

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Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881); author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.

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1. c. 1840–1841

   Our readingOnce writing is invented, democracy is inevitable

   Their wordsPrinting, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable.

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