John Cowper Powys Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time". "Maiden Castle", the last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which he intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge". All the same, despite his indebtedness to the Victorian novel and his enthusiasm for Hardy and Walter Scott, as well as for lesser figures such as Ainsworth, Powys was clearly a modernist, and has affinities also with Fyodor
S (set theory) sets" or "the class of all ordinals" include sets from all stages of the iterative hierarchy. Hence such collections cannot be formed at any given stage, and thus cannot be sets. This section follows Boolos (1998: 91). The variables "x" and "y" range over sets, while "r", "s", and "t" range over stages. There are three primitive two-place predicates: The axioms below include a defined two-place set-stage predicate, "Bxr", which abbreviates: "Bxr" is read as “set "x" is formed before stage "r".” Identity, denoted by infix ‘=’, does not play the role in S it plays in other set theories,