The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 184
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Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 184: For July, 1896;;; October, 1896; To Be Continued Quarterly Great as had been the corruption of the French Church, and pitiable as had been its shortcomings, it ought to have the credit of much of the heroism and most of the resignation, which shone so conspicuously among the victims of the Revolution in all ranks of society. It was natural accordingly, when that tyranny was overpast, that the minds of men and women should turn once again towards the ideas which had done so much for some of the most tried of their contemporaries, and that their thoughts should find ere long literary expression. The literary reaction against the despotism of what Carlyle would have called the arithmetical understanding, which in the first half of our ´excellent and ´indispensable´ eighteenth century measured everything by a foot-rule, began in England. Thomas Warton´s ´History of ´English Poetry´ has sometimes been considered as the first work which turned the current, and carried men´s thoughts back to antiquity; but in truth it is difficult to fix on any one name or any one moment for the birth of Romanticism. Suffice it to say that it was already in the air soon after the eighteenth century had passed its meridian. From England it found its way to France and Germany, to lie hidden underground until after the great political cataclysm which was approaching, but none the less destined to play a most important part in the story of the age that was immediately to succeed that world-shaking event. A German historian, quoted by Mr. Wilfrid Ward in the second volume of the life of his father, dates the commencement of the Catholic reaction in France from the publication in the first year of the century of Chateaubriand´s ´Atala.´ Perhaps he is right; but some would be inclined rather to fix on the year 1802, when the ´Génie du Chris-´tianisme´ appeared. It is difficult to understand how this book should have made the impression which it did. It had, however, the enormous merit of freshness. The subject with which it deals had never been treated quite in the same way before, and it was offered to the eyes of many readers, to whom not a few of its doctrines, which had been stale truisms to their fathers, were new discoveries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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