tionary was the rise of romanticism. It saw "the destruction of truth and validity in ethics and politics, not merely as objective or absolute, but subjective and relative truth also" (Berlin 170). The central tradition of western thought proselytized that if there is no single inference to a question it was not a genuine one and that there is a solution to all questions. All schools of thought during that period argued over the right answer to humanities problems. Berlin notes three main presuppositions to this classical view. The first is the entity called human nature. The second is to pursue specific goals of this human nature defined by God. There is a transcendent value to these goals which preexist any of us as human value and it can be understood by relevant experts. Thirdly, these goals cannot be in a state of conflict and they naturally harmonize with each other.
             For the Romantic the concept of the natural law or a given universal order was meaningless. In itself, the world had no order to discover. Order was something imposed on the world. And such an imposition of order was a creative act. It was a product of the creative powers of the mind transforming the given chaos of the world into an emotionally coherent vision. It was, above all, an
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