Inside this Book – Some speculators have a short way of accounting for the Pagan religion : mere quackery, priestcraft, and dupery, say they; no sane man ever did believe it, — merely contrived to persuade other men, not worthy of the name of sane, to believe it ! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men’s doings and history; and I here, on the very threshold, protest against it in reference to Paganism, and to all other isms by which man has ever for a length of time striven to walk in this world. They have all had a truth in them, or men would not have taken them up. Quackery 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! Let us never forget this. It seems to me a most uigumful hypothesis, that of quackery giving birth to any faith even in savage men. Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
- Full Book Name – On Heroes Hero worship and the Heroic in History
- Author of this Book – Thomas Carlyle
- Language – English
- Book Genre – History
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 16 MB
- eBook Pages – 332
On Heroes Hero worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle PDF eBook
- Inside this Book – Some speculators have a short way of accounting for the Pagan religion : mere quackery, priestcraft, and dupery, say they; no sane man ever did believe it, — merely contrived to persuade other men, not worthy of the name of sane, to believe it ! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men’s doings and history; and I here, on the very threshold, protest against it in reference to Paganism, and to all other isms by which man has ever for a length of time striven to walk in this world. They have all had a truth in them, or men would not have taken them up. Quackery 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! Let us never forget this. It seems to me a most uigumful hypothesis, that of quackery giving birth to any faith even in savage men. Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.
- Full Book Name – On Heroes Hero worship and the Heroic in History
- Author of this Book – Thomas Carlyle
- Language – English
- Book Genre – History
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 16 MB
- eBook Pages – 332
