It occurs to me that the Aceh earthquake and its consequences will
have a comparable impact to that of the great Lisbon earthquake of
1755 in influencing the European enlightenment and the push for
bourgeois democracy.
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/lisbon/
Although not the strongest or most deadly
I remember learning as an undergrad that the earthquake had a profound
effect on European psychology -- at least among the intellectuals. It
suggested that reason was incapable of taking total control and helped
to fuel the romantic movement, which in turn helped to inspire the
Nazis.
Michael
Perelman, Michael wrote:
the romantic movement, which in turn helped to inspire the
Nazis.
O come now. This could be true only in so far as one could affirm the
romantic movement, which in turn helped inspire the birth of someone in
1897, the St. Louis Exposition, the songs when johnny comes
Bill Lear wrote:
On Sunday, January 2, 2005 at 17:54:01 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes:
Perelman, Michael wrote:
the romantic movement, which in turn helped to inspire the
Nazis.
O come now. This could be true only in so far as ...
You are confusing causing with inspiring. The Nazis were
I'm sure it can be argued the other way, but orthodoxy in the Welsh school
system was that romanticism came to a definitive end in Flanders fields
1914-1918 and anything after that is modern. Of course, I was also
basically taught that the entirety of history since the Romans was an
inexorable
