SOURCE: "The Evolution of the Novel," in The Evolution of the English Novel, in The Macmillan Company, 1902, pp. 1-42.
In the following excerpt, first published in 1900 and reprinted in 1902, Stoddard proposes a law of development that he believes is applicable to any literary form: "the depiction of the external, objective, carnal, precedes, in every form of expression of which we can have records, the consideration of the internal, the subjective, the spiritual."
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