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Some Sources of Romanticism: 4 – The Restrained Romantics

Isaiah Berlin

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The Great Sinner and the Superfluous Man

The great sinner and the superfluous man was destined to play a certain part in nineteenth century art. Fiesco behaves very honourably, but rather foolishly. Renee in chateaubrian's story of the same name, dies uselessly. They die uselessly because they belong to a society which is incapable of making use of them. And then there is the other line, the men who say that if society is bad, if it is impossible to obtain the proper morality, if everything one does is obstructed, then down with the society. Let it be ruined. All crime is permitted. This is the beginning of the great sinner in dostoyevsky

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