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130 Maeterlinck
would like us to
"
go slow ";
that they object to
the use of violence and the forcible overthrow
of the evils of society. And Maeterlinck answers
in these significant words:
"
We are too ready to forget that the heads
men of misery are less noisy, less theatrical, but
infinitely more numerous, more cruel and active
than those of the most terrible revolutions."
Maeterlinck realizes that there are certain
grievances in society, iniquitous conditions which
demand immediate solution, and that if we do not
solve them with the readiest and quickest methods
at our command, they will react upon society and
upon life a great deal more terribly than even the
most terrible revolutions. No wonder, then, that
his works were put under the ban by the Catholic
Church which forever sees danger in light and
emancipation. Surely if Maeterlinck were not
primarily the spokesman of truth, he would be
embraced by the Catholic Church.
In
"
Monna Vanna "
Maeterlinck gives a won
derful picture of the new woman not the new
woman as portrayed in the newspapers, but the
new woman as a reborn, regenerated spirit; the
woman who has emancipated herself from her
narrow outlook upon life, and detached herself
from the confines of the home; the woman, in
short, who has become race-conscious and there
fore understands that she is a unit in the great
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