| Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth? |
| —Address |
| Thomas Carlyle |
Harvard Classics, Vol. 25, Part 4
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University
2nd April 1866
On Being Installed As Rector of the University There
Thomas Carlyle
Later published under the title “On the Choice of Books,” this oration is a clear statement of Carlyle’s moral passions.
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