Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Cage of Life, the Tree of Life
What blake, like all mystics of his type, desired was some kind of recovery of control over sising the spiritual element. When he writes in those famous lines, which everyone knows, robin redbreast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage. He says, laws are anneeded to fence men off. And our children wept and built tombs in desolate places and formed laws of prudence and called them the eternal laws of god. This is directed against what might be called rationalists of the eighteenth century. That is the great cry of all persons who feel somehow strangled and suffocated by the new, tidy, scientific order. The germans tended on the
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