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Updated: May 24, 2025

And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life-breath of all society, but an effluence of Hero-worship, submissive admiration for the truly great? Society is founded on Hero-worship. The Duke means Dux, Leader; King is Kon-ning, Kan-ning, Man that knows or cans.

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