The Mind of a Blank Slate Is a Pan European Movement

Romanticism is becomes a pan european movement. It's a movement of the arts, it's a movement in literature. You have people like beethoven bringing in write a romantic element to music,. You have lots of romantic poetry. So you have this movement. It gets taken up into religion by schleermacher as a way of trying to understand religion. And what it's going to do is irrationally take you into contact with reality.