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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

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Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and autodidact.

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Four year old boy with grandfather and father lighting Hanukkah menorah. Photo taken on: December 21st, 2009

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Colorful winter sunset

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The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. (Civil War, Pennsylvania)

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Past and Present

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discussed in biography

In Thomas Carlyle: London
…the hero was elaborated in Past and Present, which strove “to penetrate…into a somewhat remote century…in hope of perhaps illustrating our own poor century thereby.” He contrasts the wise and strong rule of a medieval abbot with the muddled softness and chaos of the 19th century, pronouncing in favour of…
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theories on European culture

In history of Europe: Postrevolutionary thinking
Later, Carlyle gave in Past and Present a suggestive picture of what he deemed a true community: quasi-medieval, based on the Faustian joy of work, and relying for its cohesion on its leader’s genius and strength of soul.
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