Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the sec…

Thomas Carlyle
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science ✨ Thomas Carlyle (2014). The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle, p.472, Lulu.com
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