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Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism

Isaiah Berlin

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Myths and Mythology

He was among the earliest of those. who said that myths, myths and symbols, myths, were not simply false statements about the world. Myths were ways in which human beings expressed their sense of the ineffable and inexpressible mysteries of nature. If words were used, they didn't do their properly. The attempt to tie things up into neat parcels and arrange them in some beautifully analytic fashion destroyed the unity, the continuity and the vitality of thesubjects we were contemplating. This was a protest against the french. It spread not only to germany phenomena of this kind are noticeable in england also,. where perhaps the most eloquent exponent of this point of view is,

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