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The "naturalistic" writers are deceived in thinking that they represent life as it really is. If their thesis were true, the human race would have dwindled to extinction long ago. Surely a photograph of a slattern in the gutter is no more natural than a picture of Rosalind in the Forest of Arden; and no accuracy of imitated actuality can make it more significant of truth.
"Knowledge is easy," says the wise man, "to him that understandeth"; easy, he means, to him who will use his mind simply and rationally, and not to make him think he can know what he cannot, or to maintain, per fas et nefas, a false thesis with which he fancies his interests to be bound up.
"You had gone to see a Countess; what have you done with her?" "A few days after my conversation with the old Dutchman," Derville continued, "I sent in my thesis, and became first a licentiate in law, and afterwards an advocate. The old miser's opinion of me went up considerably. This man, over whom no one appeared to have the slightest influence, listened to my advice with something like respect.
Singular as may seem the collocation of the epithet "moral" with the name "Falstaff," I venture to maintain my thesis; that in point of feeling, and therefore of possible moral elevation, Falstaff is as undeniably the superior of Sancho as Sancho is unquestionably the superior of Panurge.
Gaston Boissier, grand officer of the Legion of Honor, lecturer at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, permanent secretary of the French Academy, member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Literature, one of those who once ruled out the subject of my thesis ... one of those ... ah, poor university, ah, poor France!" I was no longer listening. I had begun to read again. My forehead was covered with sweat.
I'm likely enough to stay where I am." "Well, how about the thesis, really?" "I think I shall end by digging something out of Here and Now. 'Our Middle- West School of Fiction, what would you think of that?" "H'm! If you can make it seem worth while...." "Well, can't I?" "Your work, from the very nature of it, must be critical.
With this thesis the novelist has built up an amusing, semi-pathetic, and striking fable. There are painters scattered through English fiction can we ever forget Thackeray! Ouida has not missed weaving her Tyrian purples into the exalted pattern of her romantic painters. And George Eliot. And Disraeli. And Bernard Shaw there is a painting creature in Love Among the Artists.
Thus nothing is done without his permission or against his will, and he can prevent, as seems good to him, as much and as often as seems good to him, all that does not please him, and in consequence sin, which is the thing in the world that most offends him and that he most detests; and he can produce in each human soul all the thoughts that he approves. This thesis is also purely philosophic, that is, recognizable by the light of natural reason.
And Mr. Chesterton says that the war in the Balkans demolishes this thesis. I do not agree with him. The present war in the Balkans is an attempt and happily a successful one to bring this reign of force and conquest to an end, and that is why those of us who do not believe in military force rejoice.
We have characterized Hegel's system, thirdly, as a philosophy of development. The point of distinction here is that Hegel carries out with logical consecutiveness and up to the point of obstinacy the principle of development which Fichte had discovered, and which Schelling also had occasionally employed, the threefold rhythm thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Here we come to Hegel's dialectic method.
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