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as an alternative to the terror and meaningless of the human condition). Therefore, Camus representation that “since violence is at the root of all creation, deliberate violence shall be its answer”29 does not present a fair assessment of the Romantics who also loved the sublime, nature and beauty. Although their concept of beauty is exuberant, it would not approve of Hitler’s nihilistic aesthetic agenda. Likewise, the Romantics would reject responsibility as the progenitors of nihilism and universal crime. They simply loved life and revolution too much. Crime, they would say, has been here all along, ever before, ever after Greece: ever wearing its many colossal and glittering Bacchean masks 3⁄4
“The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadowy fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.”
Percy B. Shelley Adonais Stanza 52
29 Camus, Albert. The Rebel. Trans. Anthony Bower. New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1991. 48.
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