Modeled on Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History, it differs from that work in that this series of sketches exemplifies how great men are symbolic of their time rather than apart from it.
Its introduction states that the mass populations are "disgusting like moving cheese," but that every generation has a few men that are truly great and change society by their actions. Modeled on Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History, it differs from that work in that this series of sketches exemplifies how great men are symbolic of their time rather than apart from it. Consisting of brief biographies of Plato the Philosopher, Goethe the Writer, and Shakespeare the Poet, this is, FTP, what work of Ralph Waldo Emerson that discusses famous men throughout history?
Its introduction states that the mass populations are "disgusting like moving cheese," but that every generation has a few men that are truly great and change society by their actions.
{Representative Men}