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Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects

Isaiah Berlin

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The Art of Breaking Up the Nature of the Given

Both these are methods of blowing up the given, of shattering their sites. The whole point of the romantic vision of the noble savage was that he was unattainable. If he was attainable, he was useless. When he becomes this awful given this frightful rule of life, which is just as confining and disciplining, then the magic is gone. And therefore, the unfindable, the unattainable, the infinite and so forth. These are the hearts of the matter.

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