milieu, and moment Race

milieu, and moment Race, according to the French critic Hippolyte Taine, the three principal motives or conditioning factors behind any work of art. Taine sought to establish a scientific approach to literature through the investigation of what created the individual who created the work of art. By “race” he meant the inherited disposition or temperament that persists stubbornly over thousands of years. By “milieu” he meant the circumstances or environment that modify the inherited racial...