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THE TECHNIQUE OF FORM Latin races, he grants, are accustomed to give greater attention to unity of structure; the Anglo-Saxons and the Slavs, on the contrary, prefer a greater variety of interest, a more prodigal abundance of life:

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The fallacy of Señor Valdès argument, of course, is his failure to recognise that while the English and Russian novelists [122]