 | Robert L. Carneiro - 2000 - 328 sivua
...saying that the history of mankind is the history of the masses, it would be much more true to say that the history of mankind is the history of its great men" (Kingsley 1864b:xxxviii). But the weakness of employing the Great Man as the key to a rational understanding... | |
 | Donald R. Kelley - 2008 - 440 sivua
...scientific history as preached and practiced by Buckle, who "does not believe (as some one has said) that the history of mankind is the history of its great men" — Froude was here alluding to Carlyle, whose biographer he was. ' 19 History can be invoked to support... | |
 | 1878 - 900 sivua
..." OUR HISTORY. In the course of an essay on another historian, Mr. Froude says: "He did not believe that the history of mankind is the history of its great men. With or without them the course of things would have been much the same." If with such a belief Mr.... | |
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He did not believe (as some one has said) that the history of mankind is the history of its great men. Great men with him were but larger atoms, obeying the same impulses with the rest, only perhaps a trifle more erratic. With them or without them, the... 
