60 SOCIAL SCIENTIST Williams points out : There is always a system of some kind : one system may be established and therefore confused with permanent 'human nature', another system may challenge it and may be called because it is still in the stage of doctrine, dogmatic and abstract.9 So the real question to be asked is not whether a writer is ideologically committed or not, but what is the nature of the ideology to which he is committed. We can then go on to discuss the extent to which the ideology helps the writer in understanding the objective reality and the breadth of sympathy as well as intensity of involvement in the vital concerns of fellow human beings it ensures from him. Raymond Williams; Culture and Society, 1780-1950, New York, Harper Torchbooks paperback edition, 1966, p 107. ^^^^^n^emory^, reprinted In The Question of Henry James, ed. by F W Dupec, New York, 1945, p 110. » R P Blackmur, Introduction to The Art of the M'ouel, New York, reprinted 1962, p xiii. € F R Leavis, The Great Tradition, London, reprinted 1962, p 26. ( Raymond Williams, Op. Cit., p xvi. • Jameses Preface to The Princess Casamassima, reprinted in The Art of the J^fovel with an Introduction by R P Blackmur, New York, reprinted 1962, p 76. All further citations to this collection will be signified by the abbreviation AN, appearing along with the page numbers in parentheses after the quotations. 7 The Princess Casamassima in 2 vols., published as Vol. V and VI of the New York Edition of The Novels and Tales of Henry James, New York, 1968, II, 58. All further citations will be to the text in this edition and the volume as well as the page numbers will be indicated in parentheses following the quotations. • Raymond Williams, op cit., p 331. • Ibid., pp 58-59.