Wisdom and Destiny

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wisdom and Destiny, by Maurice Maeterlinck This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Wisdom and Destiny Author: Maurice Maeterlinck Posting Date: August 1, 2009 [EBook #4349] Release Date: August, 2003 First Posted: January 12, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WISDOM AND DESTINY *** Produced by Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. WISDOM AND DESTINY By MAURICE MAETERLINCK Translated by ALFRED SUTRO TO GEORGETTE LEBLANC I OFFER THIS BOOK, WHEREIN HER THOUGHT BLENDS WITH MINE INTRODUCTION 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 has occupied M. 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.