Quote by Thomas Carlyle
“(…) No quiere esto decir que este género de literatura haya perdido a mis ojos todos sus encantos; pero como ahora son contadas las veces que puedo leer, cuando lo hago deseo que la obra esté perfectamente dentro de mi gusto. Y el autor que prefiero es aquel en quien hallo el mundo mío, el que cuenta las cosas tales como las veo en torno mío, el que, con sus descripciones, me atrae y me interesa tanto como mi propia vida doméstica, que indudablemente no es un paraíso, pero sí una fuente de dicha inefable para mí.”
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Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. Calvinist values, however, remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order.