-worship: How to be
distinguished. Their Sacred Books (Fashionable Novels)
unreadable. Dandyism's Articles of Faith.--Brotherhood of
Poor-Slaves: vowed to perpetual Poverty; worshippers of Earth;
distinguished by peculiar costume and diet. Picture of a
Poor-Slave Household; and of a Dandiacal. Teufelsdroeckh fears
these two Sects may spread, till they part all England between
them, and then frightfully collide (p. 204).

CHAP. XI. _Tailors_

Injustice done to Tailors, actual and metaphorical. Their rights
and great services will one day be duly recognised (p. 216).

CHAP. XII. _Farewell_

Teufelsdroeckh's strange manner of speech, but resolute,
truthful character: His purpose seemingly to proselytise, to
unite the wakeful earnest in these dark times. Letter from
Hofrath Heuschrecke announcing that Teufelsdroeckh has
disappeared from Weissnichtwo. Editor guesses he will appear
again, Friendly Farewell (p. 219).

ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY

LECTURE I

THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY

[_Tuesday, 5th May 1840_]

We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their
manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped
themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what
work they did;--on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and
performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs.
Too evidently this is a large topic; deserving quite other treatment
than we can expect to give it at present. A large topic; indeed, an
illimitable one; wide as Universal History itself. For, as I take it,
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.
They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers,
patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass
of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing
accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the
practical realisation and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the
Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history,
it may justly be considered, were the history of these. Too clearly it
is a topic we shall do no justice to in this place!

One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable
company.