"Blockheadism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Edinburgh "Address," and affords new proof of the singularly dark and feeble condition of "public judgment" at this time. No idea, or shadow of an idea, is in that Address but what had been set forth by me tens of times before, and the poor gaping sea of prurient blockheadism receives it as a kind of inspired revelation, and runs to buy my books (it is said), now when I have got quite done with their buying or refusing to buy. If they would give me L10,000 a year and bray unanimously their hosannahs heaven-high ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol |
