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“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of the stagnating atmosphere of materialism and dead orthodoxy into the region of the ideal. With the Master of Balliol, we believe that 'no English writer has done more to elevate and purify our ideas of life and to make us conscious that the things of the spirit are real, and that in the last resort there is no other reality.” RealityGeniusMaterialismEnglishPurifyThomas CarlyleCarlyle Book:Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series Source: Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series