Note 323 — Chapter IV
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Auguste Ehrhard, Professor à la Faculté des Lettres de Clermont-Ferrand, Henrik Ibsen et le Théâtre contemporain, Paris, 1892, p. 233: ‘Ibsen’s characters may in general be divided into two categories—those in which the moral element, the life of the soul, dominates, and those in which the animal prevails. The first are, for the most part, mouthpieces of the theories dear to the poet.... They have their primary origin in the brain of the poet.... It is he who gives them life.’