V2nd - the ecclesiastical history read

[David Morris]

Of course, because all heros are rebels, breakers of ranks.  The
opposite of heresy is obedience/acceptance, and how boring is that?

David Morris

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:56 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Romantic Aesthetic always includes, first the heretical impulse,
> and then the act of heresy.  The "the human heart", as Hawthorne
> describes it in his famous Preface to _The House of the Seven Gables_
> beats a steady rebellion. The Romantics, be they American Scholars
> following in what Whitman describes as the "parade" led by Emerson, or
> French novelists complicit in the "killing of the cathedrals" with
> books and the Gutenberg Press (Hugo's HND),  heresy is heresy is their
> religion.