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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Vol. 3 The first three plays in this volume belong to the years 1890, 1891 and 1892. They were produced in the early fervour of the naturalistic movement and hence deal, explicitly or implicitly, with the conceptions of modern science. To-day naturalism means probity of observation merely. In 1890 it meant the literary expression of sci entific positivism. Hence it was all but inevitable that The Reconciliation and Colleague Crampton should deal with heredity and alcoholism, and that Lonely Lives should present the struggle between dogmatic Christianity and the evolutionary monism of Ernst Haeckel translated into terms of indi vidual human experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
