World History: Industrial Revolution

Romanticism is an intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century in reaction to the ideas of the enlightenment; it stressed feelings, emotions, and imagination as sources of knowing.

Romantics viewed poetry as the DIRECT expression of the soul.

indifference to or rejection of religion

He was one of the most famous composeres of his era.

He proposed the germ theory.

He thought of the concept that humans were part of the natural world. her wrote the book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

the basic theory by Charles Darwin stating that each spiecies, or kind, of plant or animal had evolved over millions of years from earlier simpler forms.

"Those that are able to surveive [survival of the fittest] reproduce and thrive, while the unfit do not"-Charles Darwin

The belief that the world should be viewed realistically was closely related to the scientific outlook