Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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Storm and Stress in German Literature
Only by action does one become the image of god, he says. We must not cease from toil until we have created free space - even if this space is a fearful waste in a fearful void. And then we shall brood over it as god brooded over the waste and the void before the world was createdad then something will arise. Oh, bliss o godlike feeling this is something of very different order from even the most violent lactubrations,. from the most ecstatic exclamations of rousseau. It indicates a very different attitude, this sudden passion for action as such, and hatred of any established order. This, i think, is unique to the germans.
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