Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Inwardness of a German Song
The whole notion of being at home, or being cut off from one's natural roots, the whole idea of belonging to a group, a sect, a movement, was invented, largely by herne. The world is what men have made of it. Some things are made consciously, and other things are made unconsciously. Our world, our german world, constructed by other germans,. that is why it smells and feels and looks and sounds to us as it does. This lies shrouded in the mists of impersonal antiquity. Nevertheless, men have made it.
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