In place of Thomas Carlyle, Britain nurtured Christopher Hill, EP Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm.
英国培养了克里斯托弗·希尔、EP·汤普森和埃里克·霍布斯鲍姆来代替托马斯·卡莱尔。
This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic, lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.
"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.