"Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here," wrote the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle.

维多利亚时代的圣人托马斯·卡莱尔写道：“通史，即人类在这个世界上取得的成就的历史，本质上就是在此努力过的伟人的历史。”