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The Buried Temple

Maurice Maeterlinck

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Should we seek to imitate what we term the injustice of Nature, we would run the risk of imitating and fostering only the injustice that is in ourselves. When we say that Nature is unjust, we are in effect complaining of her indifference to our own little virtues, our own little intentions, our own little deeds of heroism; and it is our vanity, far more than our sense of equity, that considers itself aggrieved. Our morality is proportioned to our stature and our restricted destiny; nor have we the right to forsake it because it is not on the scale of the immensity and infinite destiny of the universe.

And further, should it even be proved that Nature is unjust at all points, the other question remains intact: whether the command be laid upon man to follow Nature in her injustice. Here we shall do well to let our own consciousness speak, rather than listen to a voice so formidable that we hear not a word it utters, and are not even certain whether words there be.. . . Read More

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- Pilate - Jul 10, 2008

Another collection of essays, these a bit longer than Treasure of the Humble. Maeterlinck's philosophical reflections are interesting as always, but in this volume his mild disdain for the lower classes seems to show a bit more distinctly. Not that I'd disagree with the idea that a night spent alone

3.00
- Trounin - Jun 08, 2017

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