For Gonçalves de Magalhães, Francisco de Sales Torres Homem and Manuel Araújo Porto Alegre, the Empire of Brazil should be civilized, that is to say he needed to overcome his way of being selfish, and that in favor of the éthos of love. It was, therefore, to overcome the colonial heritage more radical, namely the habit of thinking and acting from the inclinations, appetites, to the detriment of interests concerning the community or the nation. The early Romantics were dedicated, then the ethical reorientation of the good society, and this from a melancholic atmosphere based on the tension between pessimism and distrust on the one hand and optimism and hope for another. Now more pessimistic, sometimes desperate, sometimes more optimistic about the possibility of realizing their civilizing project, would produce his poetry and his studies of history and political economy from a two-pronged strategy, namely, to entice your readers causing them the assumption of how to be love, and this despite a rational decision originated, and at the same time, provide useful lessons fundamental to the achievement of moral and material progress of the nation, dedicated lessons, in particular, the logical demonstration the need to abolish immediately slavery.