The Drift of Romanticism

absolute activity æsthetic agnosticism attempt beauty Beckford called cause century character Christianity Church consciousness creed desire difference dreams dualism egotism element emotions ence Epicureanism essay evil evolution existence experience expression eyes fact faculties faith feeling Fiona Macleod flux Fonthill force Giaour heart human Huxley hypothesis ical ideal ideas imagination impulses individual infinite inner check insight intellectual Irenæus literature look meaning ment mind moral mystical mythology Nāgasena naturalistic pantheism nature ness Newman Nietzsche Nietzsche's notion Oxford pain passed passions Pater pathetic fallacy Peter Beckford phenomena philosophical science philosophy Plato pleasure positive science Protestantism pure rationalism reality reason religion religious revelation romantic romanticism scepticism scientific self-knowledge sense sentiment Sharp sion society soul spirit strange Superman superrational sympathy theory things thought tion to-day true truth Vathek virtue vision Walter Pater whole William Beckford William Sharp word writing wrote