Note 11 — Chapter I · PURPOSE AND METHOD
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Such are the Comparative Literature of Posnett, and the less didactic work of Letourneau, L’Évolution Littéraire dans les diverses Races Humaines, Paris, 1894. The former was mainly pioneer work, meant to open and define its subject; and in this it attained its end. This sociological method has been applied, of course, in a critical way, to many individual works, and to many periods of literature; not so, however, with the poetic product at large.