
Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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Genius of This Type Can't Be Tamed
Didro is among first to preach there are two men. There is the artificial man who belongs in society and conforms to the practices of society, but has a criminal instinct which can't be tamed. Genius of this type has nothing to do with those rules which the abbe batte or the abbe du bas laid down as being the rational conventions that alone good works of art could be produced. Beware of tho s whose pockets are full of espri of wit, and who scatter this wit at every opportunity, everywhere. They have no demon within them. They are not gloomy or sombre or melancholy or silent. This is come to the salon ofs 17 65.
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