Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.
"Hippolyte Adolphe Taine" was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French Naturalism (literature)/naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of Historicism/historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him. Taine is particularly remembered for his three-pronged approach to the contextual study of a work of art, based on the aspects of what he called "race, milieu, and moment".
Taine had a profound effect on French literature; the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/1911 Encyclopædia Britannica asserted that "the tone which pervades the works of Émile Zola/Zola, Paul Bourget/Bourget and Guy de Maupassant/Maupassant can be immediately attributed to the influence we call Taine's."
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