We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture …

Thomas Carlyle
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1846). On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions, p.7
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