The Varieties of Religious Experience · Character
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist quoted on the sense of wonder and the infinite.
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Also known as Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, Tom
First appearance: lecture iii the reality of the unseen
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Referenced as a figure whose melancholy is attributed by medical materialism to a gastro-duodenal catarrh.
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With William James (psychological): James quotes Carlyle's writings on heroism and the divine to illustrate the psychological roots of religious sentiment. With William James (psychological): James quotes Carlyle's…
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