Lanced Hearts of Lovers & Martyrs

I'm Eric, a young poet who seems to have been swept away in the Romantic Spirit of Beethoven's Symphonies, struck by the philosophies of Plato & the Poets' lyrics, burned for love like the martyrs of Rome, and can see an honest beauty in love & faith.

This blog is dedicated to my passions in Poetry, Literature, History, Philosophy, and Music, along with exploring the beauty and truth in the Christian faith-- how it rebels and transcends the ways of the world and burns it ablaze; preaches it's the Heart that counts, sings how Love endures, and that Truth is a beautiful Bride & hypocrisy a sin. It reveals that love is self-less, death is no end, and that there's no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends.

• Faith & Philosophy
• History (esp. 19th cen.-WWI)
• Poetry & Literature
• Catholicism

• Christ
• St. Justin Martyr
• Socrates
• Victor Hugo
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Richard Wagner

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"Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless."
-St. Justin Martyr

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  1. It’s keen to know in Restoration-era Europe, it was not a two-pronged political spectrum (Conservative-Liberal) but four; Conservative, Reactionary, Liberal, and Radical. A Reactionary wished to bring the world back to old ways, Conservatives to maintain the present order, Liberals to progress it, and Radicals to tear down and restart everything. And Prince Metternich, the host of the Vienna Congress, was by all means a reactionary— The father himself of The Restoration Period. And was not viewed quite fondly by some because of it.    The radical poet Heinrich Heine once famously wrote  ’all of Europe was a Saint Helena and Metternich was its Hudson Lowe’ —It was in Metternich’s grandaughter, Princess Pauline of Szlavnicza, that Richard Wagner found one of his first great patrons.

    It’s keen to know in Restoration-era Europe, it was not a two-pronged political spectrum (Conservative-Liberal) but four; Conservative, Reactionary, Liberal, and Radical. A Reactionary wished to bring the world back to old ways, Conservatives to maintain the present order, Liberals to progress it, and Radicals to tear down and restart everything.

    And Prince Metternich, the host of the Vienna Congress, was by all means a reactionary— The father himself of The Restoration Period. And was not viewed quite fondly by some because of it.
        The radical poet Heinrich Heine once famously wrote  ’all of Europe was a Saint Helena and Metternich was its Hudson Lowe’

    —It was in Metternich’s grandaughter, Princess Pauline of Szlavnicza, that Richard Wagner found one of his first great patrons.

     
     

  2. The Concert of Europe 1815

    With the fall of Napoleon, the powers of Europe convened at Vienna (for the 2nd time— you can imagine the awkward moment where the summit leaders re-carving Europe are interrupted with ‘Napoleon’s back!’) The Congress set into place the Concert of Europe, a balance of power that preemptively prevented another Total War, only failing one yearshort of it’s centennial anniversary— when in 1914 the First World War broke out, from the very alliance system the congress established.

    What made it fail? The common goal of global stability simply began to dissolve to individual economic interests. Which is something a modern man should be conscious of; we’re still living in an age where economy means more than unity.