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There is a danger, of course, in leaning too much to the impressionistic method. It may lead to a neglect of moral significance, to an aestheticism that cares only for effect. Yet the greatest writers have combined both methods — the presentation of the external fact and the revelation of the inner life. The aim should be balance. The author who can give us both will be the true novelist of the future. He will show us the outward world with precision and the inward world with sympathy.