Gradually this childish naturalism develops into decoration; it becomes stylistic.
Then (happily or unhappily, in whichever direction your tastes lie) the French Revolution, by a pathetic misunderstanding of classical ideals, paved the way for the naturalism of the misnamed Romantic school.
Adolphe Belot was not, strictly speaking, a Naturalist, for he was a dozen years older than Zola, and ran up a huge list of novels ranging in character between Naturalism and melodrama.
I think it should be added to Sandeau's credit that (as it appears to me at least) he had a strong influence on the reaction against Naturalism at the end of the century.
Although--as we have seen and may see again when we come to Naturalism and look back--M.
For something on the opposite view, that Naturalism is "classical," see Conclusion.
To which a brief consideration of the curious fancy of some French critics that there is something "classical" about Naturalism may be specially relegated.
Naturalism exaggerated detail, streak of tulip, local colour, and all the rest, of which Romanticism had made such good use at its best.
Naturalism en bloc would lose almost all pretence of justifying itself if it did not stick to the ordinary, or at least actual, though it may sometimes be a sort of transformed "ordinariness in abnormality.
Now, as the most acute literary historians have always seen, Naturalism was practically nothing but a degeneration of Romanticism:[469] and degeneracy always shows itself in exaggeration.
What he means by Naturalism we shall proceed shortly to explain.
The preacher of Naturalism replaces a futile vanity in being the end and object of the creation, by a fruitful reverence for the supremacy of human reason, and a right sense of the value of its discreet and disciplined use.
Naturalism over Theism as a basis for the most wholesome kind of Morality, is still worth reading by men in search of weapons against the presumptuous commonplaces of the pulpit.
What then is the system of Nature, and what is that Naturalism which is to replace the current faith in the deities outside of observable nature?
It would be a serious mistake, then, to imagine that materialistic naturalism had to wait for the publication of the Origin of Species (1859) before it could become a formidable theory.
Professor James Ward in his Naturalism and Agnosticism, Lecture IX).
But it is against the crudities of materialistic naturalism that even a slight acquaintance with the history of ideas will form an antidote.
The facts undoubtedly compromise that prestige, for history indicates that at no period has naturalism been able to impose itself permanently.
These works are animated and firm in drawing, with naturalism carried further than by Giotto.
But in Là-Bas he takes a leap across the ditch of naturalism and reaches another, if not more delectable, territory.
When, however, naturalism of this kind is introduced into pastoral it is already on the high road toward ceasing to be pastoral at all.
For justification of this interpretation of Hume I must refer the reader to my articles on "The Naturalism of Hume" in Mind, vol.
The society to whom the reformer teaches a reticent and embarrassed naturalism will discard the reticence and avow the naturalism with pride.
There is no alloy of naturalismin this conception, and at the same time no suspicion of irrelevancy.
David Teniers I would point out next, as a type of naturalism without much straining after force or effect, no elevating force or symbolic influence.
But here also we must note the new revelation made in the souls of prophets and of sages in order to raise the religion of naturalism to morality.
There is only one end to such naturalism and that is increasing anarchy.
Moreover, there are other forms in whichnaturalism is dominating modern society.
They originated that critical and rather hostile scrutiny of Semitic ideas and values in present civilization, which plays no small part in the dilettante naturalism of the moment.
It is found, not in remaining with those elements in the religious consciousness which it shares in common with naturalism and humanism, but in passing over to those which are distinctive to itself alone.
Poor Middleton turned from naturalism to religion at the last.
How deeply sunk in the modern world are the roots of this naturalism is shown by its long course in history, paralleling humanism.
The events which have transformed the world since 1914 are an awful commentary upon such naturalism and a dreadful confirmation of our indictment.
The chapter on Naturalismowes much to its brilliant and provocative discussions.
Of course, this naturalism in letters has its accompanying and interdependent philosophic theory, its intellectual interpretation and defense.
Now, with this selfish individualism which we call naturalism we shall have much to do, for it plays an increasing rôle in the modern world; it is the neo-paganism which we may see spreading about us.
In what does scientific and emotional naturalism issue, then?
Does not its real politik make the philosophical naturalism of Spencer and Haeckel seem like child's play?
Now, such extremenaturalism has been the continuing peril and the arch foe of every successive civilization.
As Schelling to Fichte, so =Hegel= was attached to Schelling, and wrought his pantheistic naturalisminto a pantheistic spiritualism.
Whilst English deism with its air of thoroughness made way among the learned, the poison of frivolous French naturalism committed its ravages among the higher circles.
But the difference between naturalism and idealism may, I think, be better stated otherwise than by emphasising the contrast between existence and value, which it is impossible for either side to maintain.
Naturalism seeks to interpret the world by investigation of origins; idealism by investigation of ends.
But the words ring true if we are willing to accept the refined psychological realism of Racine as equally worthy to the title with the physiological naturalism of our more scientific age.
Hence Le Sage's claims on our consideration as the progenitor of naturalism in romance, but on this account also the reactionary wave against which he had to buffet in his declining years.
James Ward’s closely knit proof in hisNaturalism and Agnosticism, 2nd ed.
I may add that Professor Ward's Naturalism and Agnosticism, from which I have quoted, constitutes the most brilliant and important modern defence of the doctrine which I have endeavoured very inadequately to set before you in this lecture.
It may be more difficult to understand the second step whichnaturalism has to take before a natural science is possible.
Philosophical criticism began its work and the naive dogmatism of materialistic naturalism was soon disposed of.
The time seems to have come again when the wave of naturalism and realism is ebbing, and a new idealistic philosophical tide is swelling, just as they have always alternated in the civilization of two thousand years.
It may well be that the growing naturalism of pictorial representation from the twelfth century to the end of the thirteenth was sanctioned by the Church from this cause.
In none of the undoubted works by this master is there so advanced a naturalismas here, especially in the treatment of the drapery, which is far nearer to that of the Renaissance period than that of the Byzantine.
Indeed, these frescoes frequently fall between the two stools of naturalism and conventionalism, and have the merits of neither.
The first and all-important thing to be done by us is not to fight the naturalismoutside of us, but that which is in us.
An accurate examination respecting these words gives the following results: The word Naturalismarose first in the sixteenth century, and was spread in the seventeenth.
A remarkable activity of mind was observable in the theological world, and men of great learning and keen intellect began to apply the deductions of foreign naturalism to the sacred oracles.
Immediately after the appearance of Professor Van Oosterzee's reply to Renan, La Saussaye published his work entitled, How must Modern Naturalismbe attacked?
Röhr, the author of the Letters on Rationalism, chooses to understand by Naturalism only Materialism; and Wegscheider, only Pantheism.
Naturalism could not live thus long in Italy, nor Deism in England, nor the blind Atheism of the Encyclopædists in France; neither in either land was the work of destruction so complete.
It has been well said that Naturalism is distinguished from Rationalism by rejecting all and every revelation of God, especially any extraordinary one through certain men.
If the opposite theory of pure naturalismwere true, it ought to verify itself in the actual history of the human race, and in the actual process of its education.
Naturalism must set aside this claim and establish a positive claim for itself based on demonstration, before it has any right even to a hearing.
A system of pure naturalism which represents the idea of reason under a form which satisfies completely the intelligence without introducing the supernatural, is impossible.
The philosophy of naturalism is either a modification and re-combination of principles learned from revelation, or a protest against revelation and an attempt to dethrone it from its sway.
A system of pure naturalism would therefore give a complete account of this aggregate of finite entities, without going beyond the entities themselves, that is, without transcending the limits of space, time, the finite and the contingent.
And accordingly we have seen Naturalism led on in perfect consistency to resolve man into an automaton that goes of itself as part of a still vaster automaton, Nature as mechanically conceived, which goes of itself.
