Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic …

Thomas Carlyle
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions, p.215
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Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. ✨ Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions, p.215

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