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A General View of Positivism · Character

Corneille

French playwright cited as a model of dramatic art.

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First appearance: v the relation of positivism to art

Corneille's tie to Catholicism is one of the pressures that moves A General View of Positivism—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.

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