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description: This essay on Wisdom and Destiny was to have been a thing of some twenty pages, the work of a fortnight; but the idea took root, others flocked to it, and the volume occupied Maeterlinck continuously for more than two years. It has much essential kinship with the "Treasure of the Humble," though it differs therefrom in treatment; for whereas the earlier work might perhaps be described as the eager speculation of a poet athirst for beauty, we have here rather the endeavour of an earnest thinker to discover the abode of truth. And if the result of his thought be that truth and happiness are one, this was by no means the object wherewith he set forth. This book is indeed a confession, a naïve, outspoken, unflinching description of all that passes in the authors mind; and even those who like not his theories still must admit that this mind is strangely beautiful.
language: English
title: Wisdom and Destiny
titlecomplete: Wisdom and Destiny
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 87
publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific