小说是一种总体化的形式；它试图涵盖人类的全部经验。

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

基础结构决定论原则认为，社会文化系统的结构受人口、技术和环境相互作用的影响最为强烈。