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Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment

Isaiah Berlin

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The Happiness of the Human Soul, Says Harman

Enlightenment doctrine appeared to kill thet as living in human beings, he says. This is a very typical reaction sesbeig on the part of the youthful romantic geta of the 17 seventies. As man is made in god's image, so is the body a picture of the soul? Is a typical dissecting french view. And it is a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of unreason has endowed with divine attributes.

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