Sentence:  `` Gladius Dei '' ( 1902 ) resembles `` The Way to the Churchyard '' in its representation of a conflict between light and dark , between `` Life '' and a spirit of criticism , negation , melancholy , but it goes considerably <WSD>further</WSD> in characterizing the elements of this conflict . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense)