
Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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Haman's Fundamental Doctrine of Quality Against Quantity
Under the surface of this apparently coherent and apparently elegant century, there are all kinds of dark forces moving. For example, lafater in zuric invented the science of what he called physiognomonia. He attempted to measure u people's faces for the purpose of obtaining some kind of insight into their psychological character. At the same time, he didn't discourage all those mator dubious phrenologists and spiritualists of one kind or another. All those strange messiahs wandered about, occasionally committing crimes, at other times merely causing stupefaction,. Some of whom were arrested for their crimes, other of whom were allowed to wander about at large in the wilder and more
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