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Scottish essayist and social historian. His works include the partly autobiographical
Sartor Resartus/The Tailor Retailored (183334), reflecting his loss of Christian belief;
The French Revolution (1837); and the long essay Chartism (1839), attacking the doctrine of
laissez faire. His prose style was idiosyncratic, encompassing grand, thunderous rhetoric and deliberate obscurity.
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