“The romantic movement, in its essence, aimed at liberating human personality from the fetters of social convention and social morality. (…) But egoistic passions, when once let loose, are not easily brought again into subjection to the needs of society. (…) By encouraging a new lawless Ego, it made social cooperation impossible, and left its disciples left with the alternative of anarchy or despotism. Egoism, at first, made men expect from others a parental tenderness, but when they discovered, with indignation, that others had their own Ego, the disappointed desire for tenderness turned to hatred and violence.”
Bertrand Russell – History of Western Philosophy (1946)
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Writer Between Worlds 