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“Edmund Burke drew a distinction between the sublime and the beautiful in the 1750s. The beautiful, such as well-watered flatlands, are conducive to human flourishing. The sublime, such as the Alps, can kill you. the sublime was only beginning to come into fashion in Romantic Age.”
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