The Influence of Art on Human Behavior
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History writing was very strongly, and heaps of would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism. In England, Thomas Carlyle was a highly influential essayist who turned historian; he both invented and exemplified the phrase “hero-worship”, lavishing largely uncritical reward on sturdy leaders similar to Oliver Cromwell, Frederick the Great and Napoleon. Nationalist ideology of the interval positioned great emphasis on racial coherence, and the antiquity of peoples, and tended to vastly overemphasize the continuity between past durations and the current, leading to national mysticism. Much historical effort within the 20th century was dedicated to combating…Continue Reading
