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“manticism in particular can never be
understood. Even today Spanish ro-
manticism has been very definitely

» Misunderstood for the reason that stu-

dents of Spanish literature have eome
to it from French literature and have
very naturally identified Spanish ro-.
manticism with French romanticism.
I want to show how very, different the
French movement was’ from the Span-
ish movement:

The Romantic. Revolt in France

“In 1820 the romantic revolt -began
It came as a most violent
reaction against, two centuries of solid
classicism. So there were certain char-
acteristics in the French romanticism
that were.more emphasized. than. they
would have been if there had -not-been-
such a violent reaction. French ro-
manticism lasted until 1850, when the.
realism reaction of thé novel came in,:
and. all this time romanticism. was aj
definitely self-conscious school with ai
definite. set of pringiples. :

“If we consider French and Spahish’
romanticism side by side. we find that
we have something rather like an anti-!
thetical movement ;in Spain. There’

““was less reason for reaction than in
France because there«-was only one
century of classicism to react against
and that was not a’ very strict one.
Secondly, Spanish romanticism was
much later than French romanticism.
Finally, and now I am coming to the:
crux of the whole matter, romanticism.
in-:Spain remained a movement and:

part it was only a tendency with indi-'
viduals here and ‘theré going’ back to’
the golden age. It is difficult, indeed,
to find any prefaces, manifestos,' or
declarations of policy of the principles,
of Spanish romanticism. Romanticism:
in Spain never knew what it was; thus}
it lacked, -vigour, velfemence, and con-:
viction. ts

~$panish Romatiietsts Shortlived~
“For a movement it was very short-

lived} indeed, until’ 1833 it was nothing |.

mote than a vague tendency. I should
put its life into ten years. “After 1844
it was clearly doomed.. In 1857 Ber-
rerra calls romanticism a thing of the
past. Romanticism in Spain never
dominated the litgrature at all. This
is. very different from France. In
Spain we find that there was a weak,
little, hesitating group against a strong,
very self-cofistious group in Franée
under the able leadership of Victor
Hugo. This suggests that romanticism
in Spain was a feeble, unprofitable
movement; but on the contrary it had
more verve, more freedom, more aban-
don because of its individualism. Un-

.. doubtedly the Spanish romanticists are

a group worth studying, yet too often
studied by too few.

“The question will’ arise as_ to
whether the influence of Spanish ro-
manticism was as negligible as its life
duration. _In Spain there was ‘no anti-
romanticism to raise itself against the
romantic movement. So we find even
in the literature of today that certain
tendencies permeate certain writers lit-
tle or much and one of these tendencies
is romanticism. — Fertility, abundance,
subjeetivism, impatience: of criticism—
all these are in Spanish literature -and
I am sure ‘that Spain will never’ sit
under the: yoke of ‘ pseudo-classicism.
Spain is the home of romanticism
where you can find it in every epoch
to its fullest extent.”



Abbe Dimnet Coming

The-Abbe- Dimnet, who: is to speak at
‘Bryn Mawr on Ménday evening, De-
cember 16, has recently been much dis-
cussed as the author of The Art of Think-
ing. .He also has written a book on
The Bronte Sisters, and is an able critic
of both literature and life. He is espe-
cially interested’ in contemporary Amer-

_ica, and as a wide reader, and—a—deep

thinker, he contributes generously of his
ewn-personality and opinion to ‘the sub-
jects whereof he treats. Bryn Mawr is
indeed fortunate to haye the Abbe as its:
‘guest, and to hear him speak is an oppor-
tunity for all of us.



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Of the four hundred and forty-three
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the example of the crystal gazer who

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Stimulated to an abnormal degree.

ciation of*ideas by. images shows that
magic would be most effective if people
Therefore it is
difficult for positivists to understand
magic since positivists are concerned
only with the objeetive and the thing
producing magic is essentially sub:
jective.

Andrew Lang, who is very ,inter-
} ested in ‘the study of magic says that
primitive magic has its replicas in
modern scientific. research. He cites

saw in her crystal an event Which had
just happened to a woman with whom:
she was absolutely unfamiliar and who
was definitely antagonistic to the idea
of clairvoyance. Gilbert Murray, pres-
ident of the British Society 8f Psycho-
logical Research, tells of experiments
with his amily in which he left the
room and they decided to concentrate
on a certain subject. In 150 cases out
of 300 he got the ‘subject absolutely
right and in only one-third of the
cases was he wrong. A case in psycho-

ing subjects dé the bidding of a per-
son .at a distance without knowledge
of the experiment: These cases and
many others bearing.out the same facts:
give us another possible. hypothesis
regarding primitive magic...Science,-in
considering this magic which has such
a-powerful- “suggaaive -effect-orn people
knowing the process, may be’ dealing
with forces with which it is not yet ac-,
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from the belief in souls, which arises
from mistaken interpretations of
dreams,’ shadows,: breath,- death, etc.

rs ;
forces may operate even independently
of. the--human: mind, ret
~ Animism is-the- ghost theory ‘of the
origin of religion and is most often
connected’ with the names of,Herbert
Spencer and Tyler.. Spencer says that
all religions without exception. arise

from ancestor worship, which’ arises,

The original idea that man contained
detachable entities or souls which go
away during sleep or at death, caused
savage tribes to worship the soul of
their dead chief who. could protect
their souls after “death. Gradually one,
tribe conquered another until only one
tribal god remained all- powerful—he
became King of Kings. This idea was
deeply rooted > among anthropologists,
but it‘seer becarre-evident that Spen-

for he forgot to. take into account the
fact that the idea of God has arisen in
many:..cases from personifications- of
nature. But this theory of Spencer’s
combined with that Of the positivist
has shattered the idea of a real deity
in the minds of many scholars.

* However these theories do not take-
into account the fact that many people
have’ found: in_ religion. something to
help them thrqugh adversity, that
drunkards and wastrels have
converted and their lives transformed
by religion. Reformers have got real
dynamic power from the Bible. Re-
ligion may be, however, only the result
of powerful autosuggestion or the re-
sult of “collective emation. But these
are other hypotheses. There is the
approach of men™Nike Edington and
Millikin who¢believe that we have gone
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have faith in a real spiritual environ-
ment. Sir Oliver Lodge in a different
approach has made investigations of
the spirit and has formulated a. statis-
tical analysis of hallucinations or ap-
paritions. It has been discovered that
in almost every case these hallucina-
tions have occurred within 12 hours
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and the existence of a personal. deity.
Hitherto magic and positivism have
failed to consider“the data which did
not fit. their prejudices. :

-Dr. Hart concluded his talk with a
more personal message. “If we have

the courage to be Benuinely scientific.

we must consider all these hypotheses
as explanation of religion. We must
be willing to experiment in our own
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