Thomas Carlyle quote about nature from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History - Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.'
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Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an 'apocalypse of Nature,' a revealing of the 'open secret.'
 Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841). copy citation

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“How much more he who sings, who says, or in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings and endurances of a brother man! He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar. Perhaps there is no worship more authentic.
Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an "apocalypse of Nature," a revealing of the "open secret." It may well enough be named, in Fichte's style, a "continuous revelation" of the Godlike in the Terrestrial and Common. The Godlike does ever, in very truth, endure there; is brought out, now in this dialect, now in that, with various degrees of clearness: all true gifted Singers and Speakers are, consciously or unconsciously, doing so.” source

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