dim-struggling

Updated: June 28, 2025

One man, full of heartfelt earnest impulse, finds out a way of doing somewhat, were it of uttering his soul's reverence for the Highest, were it but of fitly saluting his fellow-man. An inventor was needed to do that, a poet; he has articulated the dim-struggling thought that dwelt in his own and many hearts. This is his way of doing that; these are his footsteps, the beginning of a "Path."

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