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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES LECTURE I. THE HERO AS DIVINITY Page 1, Line 6 Hero-worship. Hume makes use of this term, if he did not invent it. In discussing polytheism, he says, "The same principles naturally deify mortals superior in power, courage, or understanding, and produce hero-worship." Hume, Natural History of Religion, Sect, iv, v, p. 144. Edin., 1854. Cp. "The second opinion is, that their gods were simply their kings and heroes, whom they afterwards deified." L.L. 11. "Is there not still in the world's demeanour towards Great Men enough to make the old practice of Hero- Worship intelligible, nay significant?" Essays, Goethe's Works, III, 160. "Loyalty, Discipleship, all that was ever meant by Hero-Worship, lives perennially in the human bosom." Essays, EoswelVs Life of Johnson, II1,82. 1 10 Universal History, etc. "History is the essence of innumerable Biographies." Essays, On History, II, 231. Cp. it., Biography, III, 54, foot; and Heroes, 33. 2 17 well with them. Adaptation of Matt, xvii, 4. 4 11 Surely it seems. Cp. infra, 6 16 n. 4 33 mere quackery. Cp. "To tell fabulous stories of that kind does not seem a natural process in the diffusion of science. No man in such a case would have sat down to make out something which all the while he knew to be a lie; no serious man would do it." L.L. 11. 5 26 Turner's Account. Captain Samuel Turner. He reached Thibet just after the death of one lama and the installation of another, a baby eighteen months old. See his Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Thibet, cap. viii, pp. 310-316. Lond., 1800. In H1 this reads 'Hamilton's Travels into.' Evidently Carlyle had in mind: "An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal, and of the territories annexed to this dominion by the House of Gorkha. By...
