In Romanticism the main determinant is the mood the atmosphere. And in that regard you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth still mysterious forces.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is intimacy spirituality color aspiration towards the infinite expressed by every means available to the arts.
It is a truism that almost any sect cult or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.