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Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism

Isaiah Berlin

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Herder Is the Originator and the Author, Not of Nationalism, as Is Sometimes Said

Herder is one of those not very many thinkers in the world who really do absolutely adore things for being what they are, and don't condemn them for not being something else. He dislikes every form of violent coercion and the swallowing of one culture by another because he wants everything to be as much of what it is as it can possibly be. The helder is really the father and the ancestor of all those amateurs who go round the world, ferreting out all kinds of forgotten forms of life,. delighted in everything that is peculiar,Everything that is odd, everything that is native, everything thati touched.

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