
Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects
Isaiah Berlin
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Romanticism and the Art of Life
The superior person who crushes the inferior becous. His will is stronger. That is a direct inheritance, and extremely distorted, garbled form,. still an inheritance from these romantics of whom i have been speaking. This certainly has played an extremely powerful part in our lives. If you are an artist, then perhaps some of these propositions which i have tried to utter during the last six lectures have a great deal of validity. They attempt to convert life into art. Presupposes that human beings are stuff. The presupposes theyare simply, in some sense, material. Evena s or sounds are material. To this extent, romanticism, in its full form, and even its
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