It was not only the unsettling shift to an overly rationalist and mechanized view of the world, but also the realization that something of immense value was being lost that birthed the Romantic Movement. This was not some “romanticized” view of backbreaking manual farm labor that the Romantics were concerned with; but rather, they were concerned with the spirit and the soul of the folk which had been preserved through all those generations before mechanized farming machinery started to make laborers redundant. These were people who had passed down stories steeped in ethnic spiritual tradition for, in some cases, literally thousands of years.

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