Radical
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Radical revolutionaries unsurprisingly took inspiration from the Terror and saw it as means for bringing about utopian changes to society and believed the events failed because its leaders were too moderate.
- While it's mainly known today as the easternmost point in the Rust Belt, in the 19th century upstate New York was well-renowned as a hub for eccentrics, spiritualists, weird religious offshoots, utopian communes, and radical social activists and moral reformers.
Source: Cloudcuckooland - Romanticism as such contains the disillusionment at good ideas producing contradictory results, a nostalgia for the world that science and modern society is displacing and in the more radical instances, an attempt at regaining or redeeming that utopian aim in the Enlightenment.
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