I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

- Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle was deeply interested in religion and wrote extensively on the topic. He was influenced by German Romanticism and the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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