Word: loved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Literature rests on the love of a good book. A book is the product of the age and hour in which it is brought forth, and it reflects the passions and the feelings of the crowd. To study changing literary tastes is to approach human life in all its aspects. It takes no knowledge of philosophy to do this, because observation is all that is necessary. Literary fashions are affected by the climate, the religion and the politics of the land. Just as the fashions of a country are sometimes curious, sometimes amusing, so are the literary tastes of that...
...appears in literature not only in imitation in writing, but also in the reading of the books of the day. In literary evolution there are no laws. Action is followed by re-action, the psychological novel replaces the romantic, and is in turn displaced. There is no invariable progress. Love of novelty makes for literary progress more than any other factor...
...Deschamps, though unwilling to go to the limits of Hervieu's daring conclusions, yet on essential points and in general theory agrees with him. He believes that to Hervieu is due unstinted praise for the sincerity, the eloquences and the talent with which he has defended the love marriage against the "mariage de convenance" and the "mariage de raison," so often opposed to the invincible instinct of love...
...marriage. These writers, as a class, remain faithful to the doctrines of authors of the older schools, they have steadfastly opposed the introduction of mercenary considerations into the question of marriage, and have championed the principle that the union of man and woman should be dictated and guided by love alone...
...directed against the vices of his time. "Le Fils Natural" and "Le Pere Predigue" are the two sides of one same social thesis. He also laughs at ill matched marriages. The aim of Dumas in to rebuild Society by means of the family, and the family, by means of love. He declared that always and everywhere he aimed at an "ideal of love, of family, and of work." He was thus a kind of legislator on the stage. His attacks against the code are well known. The most brilliant follower of Alexander Dumas fils is M. Paul Hervieu...