"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion." ― Thomas Carlyle Topic(s): History Tags: elements, great, three More From Thomas Carlyle "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against." "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." "The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better." More In History "Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping."― Nat King Cole "Most of us get our history through story."― Yann Martel "The incentive to ambition is the love of power."― William Hazlitt