Excerpt from Thomas Carlyle N 0 more interesting personality dominated the life and thought of the nineteenth century than that of Thomas Carlyle. It is true that the century was rich beyond the record of preceding generations in writers and thinkers, who gave nourishment and guidance to all varieties and forms of intellectual inquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.