Carlyle encontró en las vidas ajenas un motivo de arte mayor, el cual requería para su mejor realización el concurso indispensable de la sensibilidad y la maestría. Si na-die ha sentido como Carlyle que este mundo es irreal, según la apreciación de Jorge Luis Borges, hagamos lo posible por no caer en el error de buscar en e
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. Calvinist values, however, remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order.
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