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Mole of history

William Shakespeare

Phraseologism: Mole of history.

Meaning: About the invisible movement of history, the latent ripening in the depths of human civilization of major events, changes, cataclysms.

Origin: The expression is based on an image from the tragedy "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) (act 1, scene 5). Hamlet, having heard the voice of his late father coming from under the ground, exclaims (translated by A. L. Sokolovsky): "You dig nicely, old mole! // You are fit to be a miner." Thanks to the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), this image turned into a stable phrase "the mole of history", which is used, of course, already outside the Shakespearean context and means some logic of historical events, not yet known to man. In his "Lectures on the History of Philosophy", where Hegel reveals the content of the concept of "world spirit" introduced by him, the philosopher says that the history of this "spirit" is the history of mankind itself. He writes that the world spirit "is a movement forward", it is "internal continuous work (as Hamlet says about the spirit of his father: "Good work, honest mole!") - until he, having grown strong in himself, now breaks so that it falls apart, the earth's crust, which separated him from his sun, from his idea. Later, this expression was used by A. I. Herzen, K. Marx and their followers, who wrote about the "steady course of the revolutionary movement", about the inevitability of changing one system to another, etc.

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Sweet burden of glory.

Meaning:

About fame, which amuses pride (jokingly-iron.) (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

Title Ch. 7 novel "The Golden Calf" (1931) by Soviet writers Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942).

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