Garnet  Smith,  who  thus  sums  up  his  long  and  intimate  study  already
quoted  :

Mr.  Meredith  has  conceived  a  great  distaste  for  what  he  takes  ]
to  be  the  Hanoverian  or  early  Victorian  type  of  woman;  and,  accord-
ingly, since  individuality,  character,  rests  in  divergence  from  type,
presents  his  heroines  as  having  at  least  the  instinct  and  desire  to  be
wholly  divergent  from  this  type  of  his  abomination.  We  were  told
long  ago  that  there  is  a  constant  feud  between  the  philosopher  and
the  poet,  the  moralist  and  the  artist.  If  the  moralist  were  to  have
his  way ;  if  all  men  and  women  were  what  he  would  have  them  be ;
monotony  would  ensue,  the  artist's  occupation  would  be  gone.
