Thomas Carlyle wrote of his father “He was among the last of the true men, which Scotland produced, or can produce.” His father, James Carlyle, dominated Carlyle’s childhood home where the absolutes of religion, conduct and work prevailed (Merriman 1). Growing up in this type of environment gave Carlyle difficulty reaching his success. Thomas Carlyle, Scottish born biographer, historian, was the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age, writing such works as The French Revolution…
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