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The subject of the article is reconstruction of assumptions and postulates of Novalis’s education program of the human race aimed at indication of the distinctive features of early Romantic historiosophy as its dependence on Enlightenment thought. Examination of both these aspects in their interpenetration allows revealing the inner contradictions of Novalis’s project determining its utopian character, which manifests itself in the vision of the Golden Age as an expression of the Romantic “new mythology”.