The New Naturalism.

The article discusses books and authors. The new naturalism is as old at least as Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius, which is to say, as old as Greek philosopher Democritus, or even older. Since labels are in order and to become a public possession, an idea must first attach to itself an ism, a suffix, it is hereby proposed that naturalism be the name given to a point of view which, though it had its inception in the lucid and direct intelligence of the Greeks, has been forgotten enough in contemporary times to have its mere revival regarded as a novelty.