On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History How, then, comes it, may the re¿ective mind repeat, that the grand Tissue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science, -the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth, which Man's Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall, wherein his whole other Tissues are in luded and screened, his whole raculties work, his whole Self lives, moves, and has its being? For if, now and then, some straggling broken-winged thinker has cast an owl's-glance into this obscure region, the most have soared over it altogether heed Iess, regarding Clothes as a property, not an accident, as quite natural and Spontaneous, like the leaves of trees, like the plumage of birds. In all speculations they have tacitly figured man as a Ulothed Animal, whereas he is by nature a Naked Animal, and only in certain circumstances, by purpose and device, masks him self in Clothes. Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look be fore and after: the more surprising that we do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.