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Romanticism is a conception analogous to the morality of the period.
Modernity cannot be compared to the past because what has survived from the past is only a variety of successive modernities. There is not link between them so no comparison is possible and an artist cannot learn from the past. Art ought to be modern Nietzsche, History is an enemy of life. And finally a sense of unhappiness. Aristocratic in time of egalitarianism hostility toward a prevailing middle-class civilization with utilitarian and mercantile standards.