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Use of Philosophy in LiXERA tURE. Much has been written of Thomas Hardy, much more will be said. Great men are not disposed of in a few volumes. To couple his name with that of Schopenhauer even is no longer a new matter. The present study pretends to give no final word of criticism and no comprehensive appreciation. It aims to be one-sided and intensive. It is a search into the reason why The Return of the Native or Tess or The Mayor of Casterbridge should come to the lips as an illustration pi the philosophy of The World as Will and I dea. How much of a philosopher Hardy, the writer, is, how nearly his jrfiilbS- ophy resembles that of Schopenhauer, how it has affected fiis, work, and to what conclusions it has brought him are the questions it will consider. To-day scholars are contributing articles to the Modem Language Association publications to show first, that the Pewt is a real lament of a real father over a lost daihter, second, that the poem is a theological dissertation woven about a straw child. Will the Modem Language Association writers of some distant future expend their strength to prove that Thomi Si Hardy wrote novels, poems, and one stupendous drama to set forth a scheme of philosophy he had; or, on the contrary, that fhe wrote because an artist must write, and that the philosophy ,- Vleaked in as the theology leaked into the Pearl, because the air ;was supersaturated with it. One is tempted to press fhc( analogy to its limits, to foreshadow the arguments pro and con, I and to suggest that the decision may long be a matter of individual preference. Without going so far, however, the inference seems clear that even as the Middle A ges produced their theological literature, their Body and Soul debates, their Piers Plowman and Pearl, and even as they had their bumir questions of predestination and free-will, and whether men are saved by grace
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