This man wrote that "universal history is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here" in his 1840 lectures On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.
This author lamented the "huge piles of mouldering wreck" that composed the civil war-era pamphlets in the British Museum, and attacked a fake historian called "Dryasdust" for failing to recognize the "Puritan heroism" hidden in such "Rushworthian chaos." S. C. Lomas re-edited this man's collection of Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches. James Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black #2 is a portrait of this author, who described the French mob as "clear-sighted, inventive, prompt to seize the moment" in a history whose first (*) draft was burned in a fireplace by the careless servant of John Stuart Mill. This man wrote that "universal history is at bottom the history of the great men who have worked here" in his 1840 lectures On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. For 10 points, name this Victorian better known for writing about the "philosophy of clothes" in Sartor Resartus.
This author lamented the "huge piles of mouldering wreck" that composed the civil war-era pamphlets in the British Museum, and attacked a fake historian called "Dryasdust" for failing to recognize the "Puritan heroism" hidden in such "Rushworthian chaos.
Thomas Carlyle