| | Literary Encyclopedia: Thomas Carlyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Thomas Carlyle, the eldest of 10 children, was born in the village of Ecclefechan, just north of the Scottish-English border. |
| | However, Carlyle was dispirited by class sizes of up to 150 students and the corresponding remoteness of his teachers; only mathematics, with its far smaller class sizes, proved able to command his attention and his precocious abilities soon drew the personal attention he needed. |
| | Carlyle's only novel is a complex work providing a pseudo-biographical narrative of how an outlook such as his could arise, progressing through sincere doubt to a triumphant acceptance and affirmation of the irrational fact of the world through a worldly trinity of faith, duty and work. |
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