Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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The Germans, the Germans and the French
The germans came from an entirely different social melion lessing, count herda fichter were all very humbly born. Only cleist and evalis were what would in those days be called country gentlemen. The only persons with any degree of aristocratic connection which could be said to take part in german literature, german life or painting was the mystic baron eckarhausen. Not exactly first class figures, not exactly figures. If on the otherhand, you think about the french of this period, of all the radicals, the left wing, the most xtreme, so to speak, opponents of orthodoxy,. All these persons came from a very, very
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