What Thomas Carlyle thinks about religion
Scottish essayist and historian (1795 to 1881); author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.
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3 dated positions, c. 1840–1841, in their own words. Our reading of what Thomas Carlyle has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsQuackery and dupery do abound; in religions, above all in the more advanced decaying stages of religions, they have fearfully abounded: but quackery was never the originating influence in such things; it was not the health and life of such things, but their disease, the sure precursor of their being about to die!
↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
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Their wordsOur current hypothesis about Mahomet, that he was a scheming Impostor, a Falsehood incarnate, that his religion is a mere mass of quackery and fatuity, begins really to be now untenable to any one.
↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book
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Their wordsA false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
↗On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1840-1841)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book