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

Isaiah Berlin

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The Two Plus Two Equals Four

No man wants to believe that two plus two equals five. But this is a very suffocating truth. Any one who wanted to break out of this sprison of the multiplication table would be regarded as not quite sane. If all facts in the universe could be reduced to this, then we would no longer kick against them. That is a great rationalist presupposition. This hume certainly broke.

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