Mountain Paths

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Maurice Maeterlinck is the author of Mountain Paths. The contents list gives chapter titles such as The Power of the Dead, Messages from Beyond the Grave, The Mothers, The Insect World and Of Gambling. The text says of certain mothers that all their sons disappear one by one, and that these mothers do not weep as the mothers wept in former wars.

The chapter headed The Soul of Nations mentions the admirable and touching pages in which Octave Mirbeau bequeaths his last thoughts to us. The chapter headed Macrocosm and Microcosm says that the human embryo repeats, very rapidly during the early months of its development and more slowly during the later months, all the forms of life which preceded man upon this earth. The text also discusses so-called communications from beyond the grave, made through the agency of a medium who is or believes himself to be inspired or possessed by the deceased.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.