Excerpt from Thomas Hardy's Universe: A Study of a Poet's Mind
Without criticizing Hardy's philosophy as one would criticize, say, Spinoza's, conceiving it as a system really warranted to lift the burthen of the mystery, dissecting it, and examining each detail with the bright and merciless instruments of a rigid induction and deduction, one may without great qualms yield to the temptation of observing, broadly, how the tentative and unadjusted scheme of the greatest living English poet fits in with those of such thinkers, also vocal to tragedy, who have chosen to eschew imaginative writing and to expose their attitudes more strictly in accordance with the laws of logic.
If, i'ndeed, one may attempt to come to grips with the intellectual content of Hardy (and surely one may l - a more exhilarating mental sport can scarcely be imagined), it is as impossible to succeed in such an attempt without indicating parallelisms from philosophers as it is to discuss his art without pointing out literary parallels. In particular, it is quite impossible, from the first, to ignore Schopen hauer, - and before one has proceeded very far, Schopenhauer is found to have usurped practically the whole discussion.
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