Excerpt from St. Ignatius Collegian, 1901 Such was the case with Mr. Thomas Car lyle, the maker and breaker of heroes, the literary Knox of the nineteenth century. In the Reminiscences, edited by james Anthony Froude, the true Carlyle appears - the man who thought-that the world was going all wrong, and that he was destined to reform it, set it aright, as it were, by his counsels and admonitions illustrated by the examples of men like Cromwell, Frederick of Prussia, Mah'omet and Knox, whom he called heroes; the man, who for half a century, waged a war of cant with the hammer of Thor on cant itself; who saw in men only blockheads and fools, and in things only inanities and shams. 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.