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'♦0 Professor Rice refers to an article by F. Baldensperger which suggests a 

 possible connection with 'the phrase das psychologische Moment attributed to 

 Bismarck in connection with the siege of Paris' (Note 3, p. 273). The term may 

 come from Hegel: it occurs as early as 1850, in Taine's student notes on 

 'Philosophy of History' (Chevrillon, pp. 399-400). Giraud also sees the 

 influence of Hegel, rather than Comte: 'The theory of the "moment", like 

 that of the "milieu", is already found in Hegel, and not merely in germ.' 

 (Essai sur Taine, p. 44, Note 2.) Thus cf. G. W. F. Hegel, The Philosophy of 

 Fine Art (lectures originally delivered 1820 ff.): the translator's note to 'sl phase 

 in the speculative idea' reads as follows: ^Aioment. A phase in an evolutionary, 

 or, as it is here, a dialectical process. A momentary feature of it' (Vol. I, p. 94). 



41 Op. cit., pp. 275-276. 



42 Ibid., p. 277 and Note 10. 



43 Op. cit., p. 286. 



44 Op. cit., p. 276. 



45 History of English Literature, I, 16. 



46 Guerard, Literature and Society, p. 105. A persuasive statement of this 

 point is T. S. Eliot's well-known essay, 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' 



(1917)- 



47 Chapter VII. 



48 Lectures, Second Series, p. 163. 



49 Ibid., pp. 1 9 1-2 1 6. 

 ^^ Ibid., p. 319. 



51 'The correspondence of the biological co-ordinates. Organisms, Function- 

 ings and Environments, with the sociological analogues. Folk, Work and Place, 

 is obvious.' J. A. Thomson, article on 'Biology', Encyclopaedia Britannica (14th 

 ed.), Vol. 3, p. 608. 



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