A spiritual naturalism! It must be complete, powerful, daring in a different way from anything that is being attempted at present.

Perhaps as approaching my concept I may cite Dostoyevsky.

Yet that _exorable_ Russian is less an elevated realist than an evangelic socialist.

In France right now the purely corporal recipe has brought upon itself such discredit that two clans have arisen: the liberal, which prunes naturalism of all its boldness of subject matter and diction in order to fit it for the drawing-room, and the decadent, which gets completely off the ground and raves incoherently in a telegraphic patois intended to represent the language of the soul--intended rather to divert the reader's attention from the author's utter lack of ideas.

As for the right wing verists, I can only laugh at the frantic puerilities of these would-be psychologists, who have never explored an unknown district of the mind nor ever studied an unhackneyed passion.