
Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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The Importance of a Jew's Life
He was sent by some rich baltic merchants to london for the purpose of transacting a piece of business, but instead drank, gambled and got into heavy deat. He then had a religious experience, read the old testament, which his pietist parents and grandparents had sworn by, and suddenly was spiritually transformed. In this transformed religious condition, he came back to kendigsberg and began to write obscurely, under many pseudonyms. He wrote in a style which has proved from this day to that unreadable. At the same time, he had a very powerful and marked influence upon a number of other writers, who in their turn, had a considerable influence upon
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