Carlyle’s First Law
The great law of culture is: let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-born historian and philosopher, had an optimistic rather romantic faith in the power of the individual. His bias was apparent from the beginning of his literary career, as evidenced by this law taken from an 1827 essay in the Edinburgh Review.
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