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Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics

Isaiah Berlin

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The World of Man Is Different From the World of a Butcher

To be free, says fichter, is nothing. To become free is the very heaven i make my world as i make a poem. Yet, of course, freedom is double edged. Because i am free, i am to exterminate others ame incapable of committing evil acts. Savages exterminate each other, and civilized nations will go on exterminating each other. The only decernent enviroment is some kind of moral regeneration. Man shall be and do something. A man who does not create, a man simply accepts what life or what nature offers him, is in some sense dead. Therefore, the only perfectly free being is something larger than man. It's

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