calases

Updated: May 27, 2025

The old man of Ferney comes up to Paris; an old, tottering, infirm man of eighty-four years. They feel that he too is a kind of Hero; that he has spent his life in opposing error and injustice, delivering Calases, unmasking hypocrites in high places; in short that he too, though in a strange way, has fought like a valiant man.

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History