HER

TH

CHAP

ON

HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP

AND

THE HEROIC IN HISTORY.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

[1840.]

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.

1873.

KC14729

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

LONDON

ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N. W.

CONTENTS.

LECTURE I.

THE HERO AS DIVINITY. Odin. Paganism: Scandi-

navian Mythology

PAGE

I

THE HERO AS PRIEST. Luther; Reformation: Knox;

Puritanism.

107

LECTURE V.

THE HERO AS Man of LetTERS. Johnson, Rousseau,

Burns.

143

LECTURE VI.

THE HERO AS KING. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern