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Hardy shows his central vision of a universe governed by the purposeless movements of a blind, unconscious force that he called the Immanent Will. His poems reflect a profound sense of human loss and sorrow and convey the bitter ironies inflicted upon humans by the Immanent Will, the blind force that he felt drives the world, which makes critics call Hardy a pessimist. His pessimism derives from loss of faith in the benevolent, anthropomorphic God of Christian orthodoxy. And also the loneliness and isolation of human beings cause Hardy's pessimism. Hardy himself denied that he was a pessimist, calling himself a “meliorist,” one who believes that the world may be made better by human effort. Beyond this mood of his poems which illustrate the perversity of fate and the disastrous or ironic coincidence, he presents the importance of altruism. charity and loving- kindness as a mean of ameliorating the human lot. The spirit of loving-kindness, Hardy advocates, should be the basis of all human relations. Much more suffering can be avoided and the human lot can be improved if we are kind and sympathetic to each other. So, Hardy is a real humanist or as he called himself, an evolutionary meliorist.
