Hardy understood the nature with organic point of view, so the natural world in his novels is magic, beautiful and full of spirits, which is an living existence of human equality.

哈代以有机的观点看待自然，他笔下的自然神奇、美丽且充满灵性，是与人类平等的相互联系的生命存在。

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Over four centuries of scientific progress have convinced most professional philosophers and scientists of the validity of naturalism: the view that there is only one realm of existence, the natural world, whose behavior can be studied through reason and empirical investigation.

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