/lit/ - Literature

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I think you guys are a bit myopic, Carlye is a bit more nuanced than monarchy bad/good.
Carlye can apreciate the person and actions of Cromwell while still being overall empathetical to monarchy. Hell, Cromwell and a large part of the commonwealth wasnt even explicitly anti-monarch, just mostly anti King Charles

Cromwell is part democritus, part Constantine and part Napoleon. He is a very interesting as a character study, as inpart power feel in his lap, but he also proved it with action, and he had convictions to use it to create a great state and religious body, however, He was more temperate(and I would say less cynical) then either Caesar or napoleon or constantine. He tried multiple times to honestly give up most of his power to a representitive body, but it fell into gridlock and HAD to take the reigns. And was often good at it. He was honestly pious and somewhat of a mediator. Which is a very novel characteristic, Most strongly willed and powerful conquered are not mediators by their very nature.

He was king, prime minister, and pious layman all at once. Most leaders can usually only hope to be two. (not saying he was perfect of course, he had his own flaws)