Direct Synthesis

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“The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.”
—Isaiah Berlin (b. 1909)

“In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)