Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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The Germans in the Seventieth and Eighteenth Century
The attack of which i wish to speak came from the germans. The logical implications of his ideas didn't really become evident until the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Hume certainly thought that the universea sed much as it did. He believed in art exactly as reynolds believed in it, exactly as doctor john believed in it. But if you look at germany in the seventieth century, or whatever reason, with the exception of the one great feggar of leiblitz, it is very difficult to see who among those germans affected any significant fashion. They were governed by 300 princes and 12 hundred sub princes.
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