"CLASSICISM is Health, ROMANTICISM a Disease." Please comment.Please answer in detail

The statement is quite interesting.  In my mind, it makes
the argument that the totality and sense of complete transcendence that was offered in
the Enlightenment age was needed as a condition of human happiness.  This comes from the
idea that rational thought and science, if properly applied, could solve what ails the
human heart in both literal and figurative terms.  Conversely, it views the subjectivity
and doubt caused as a result of the Romantic period as a disease precisely because it
sought to undermine such a condition.  One’s appreciation of the statement is  going to
be dependent on how they stand on this issue of totality.  In my mind, if one embraces
the idea that there can be a sense of totality present, a sense of complete security in
that every question has an answer and can be found with enough patience and focus, then
the statement is valid.  Consider how the Romantic would look at Keats’ closing quote to
“Ode on a Grecian Urn.”  The Classicist thinker is going to suggest that such an ending
resolves nothing.  The idea that there is a limit to “one all need to know” is simply
preposterous because individuals with reason and rationality can solve anything and
understand any particular challenge such as beauty and truth.  These are elements that
can be resolved and articulated without a sense of vagueness and ambiguity.  At the same
time, if one does not believe in this totality, that there is a sense of incomplete
within the human predicament, that all humans can know is their own subjective
consciousness and to understand this is “all ye need to know,” then the statement is
going to be seen as false and actually quite the opposite.  The Romantic thinker would
see Classicism as the disease, as a way of falsely configuring human consciousness to
become conformist and eliminating the spirit of individual exploration and subjective
consciousness that has defined much in way of human endeavor.  In the end, the quote
will be seen in two different ways, depending on how one’s orientation is geared in
accepting either Romantic or Classicist sensibilities.