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Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather monstrous historical figment of retrospective definition, one of the commonest of theoretical concerns was to speculate on the nature of society, and on the nature of social development. Theories of Man's primitive nature blossomed, and the Romantics looked both to nature and to this primal human essence for their poetic and intellectual inspiration
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― The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture
― The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture
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she had always clung to the hope her world would somehow regain its course and would one day cease its unbearable orbit of a darkened star
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― His Judas Bride
― His Judas Bride
