
Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects
Isaiah Berlin
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Romanticism - The Romantic Way
Some romantics, of course, went too far, by which i mean this. Institutions are created freely by human beings for the benefit of other human beings and in time they become worn out. We must abolish them and have new institutions arrived at by our own indomitable will. Doctrines can also be a most terrible weight upon us, fearful chains and tyrannies that yoke us down to all kinds of views we no longer desiderate. But if it is true annough a theory is tol must be blown up. Any kind of general theory, say hegel, say marks, is itself a ghastly form of despotism. The hysterical element,
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