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Content: Roussea believed in the primitive state of innocence. He said that the lives of pre-civilized "natural" human beings were ones of contentment and benevolence but when the great human inventions of civilization and private property arrived, everything went downhill. He also believed that society's laws should be an expression of "the General Will" which would always be right. Why was poetry important to Romantic writers? Most of the romantic novelists of the period were themselves poets. Since poetry is so often associated with emotional state rather than educational fact, the writers of these poems during the era of Romanticism found that poetry was a great medium through with they would convey various ideas. They stated important facts about lofty topics like the meaning of life. How did the romantic concept of religion differ from Reformation Protestantism and enlightenment deism? Romanticism is more an artistic movement than a religious concept while the Reform was more religious, and en lighted deism more philosophical. How did Romantic ideas and sensibilities modify European ideas of Islam and the Middle East?