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Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty.
Actually, Sheehy outdoes Carlyle, because the only thing that matters to her is personality; she doesn't give a damn about the national stage.
The way we talk about the character of leaders has come a long way since Leo Tolstoy railed against Carlyle's great-man theory of history 130 years ago in War and Peace : "To study the laws of history, we must entirely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements that influence the masses."
Following the earl’s death, Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle decided to inspire his fellow countrymen through a national gallery devoted to their heroes.
Carlyle looks like just the sort of fellow who'd think it his duty to explore things that the rest of us, deep down, want to know about but wouldn't dream of investigating ourselves.