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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Carlyle, Thomas

Carlyle, Thomas
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Life and Works

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was born into a Scottish family devoted to
the austerities and rigors of Calvinism. He was educated at the University
of Edinburgh in preparation for the church. The great emotional and
intellectual crises of Carlyle's life came when he lost his faith in
Christianity. The result was that he left the ministry, but he never abandoned
the moral and religious values he had inherited. Moreover, his life was
complicated by chronic indigestion and insomnia, the latter a disorder which
he and Jeremy Bentham had in ...

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