Word: plebeian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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That Carlyle ever came to be a disciple to Goethe has appeared strange to many for they seemed to the casual observer to be widely separated; Goethe was a patrician, the favorite of a count, whileCarlyle was more a plebeian. The most serious obstacle to Carlyle's worshipping Goethe, was found not in the writings of Goethe but in Goethe's life itself...