Binston Birchill’s Reviews > Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism (Latin American Literature and Culture) > Status Update

Egotism is at the base of almost all great historical characters; egotism is the real mainspring that causes all great actions to be executed.
Quiroga possessed this political gift to an eminent degree, and exercised it by concentrating about him everything he saw disseminated in his surrounding, uncultured society; wealth, power, authority, all this he had…”

The “great man” theory of Carlyle