“You don’t believe in God, so you begin to believe that man is a god. You don’t believe in Heaven so you begin to believe in a heaven on earth. In other words, you get romanticism. The concepts that are right and proper in their own sphere are spread over, and so mess up, falsify and blur the clear outlines of the human experience. It is like pouring a pot of treacle over the dinner table. Romanticism, then, and this is the best definition I can give of it, is ‘spilt religion.’”
T.E. Hulme
