The Buried Temple

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The Buried Temple is by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Alfred Sutro. A note says that of the five essays in the volume, two only, those on The Past and Luck, were written in 1901. The note names the remaining essays as The Mystery of Justice, The Evolution of Mystery and The Kingdom of Matter.

The text says that we have created a very plausible semblance of effective justice, which rewards or punishes most of our actions in the degree that they approach, or deviate from, certain laws that are essential for the preservation of the race. The writer says it is evident that if he sows his field he has an infinitely better prospect of reaping a harvest the following summer than a neighbour who has neglected to sow his. The text asks whether the words destiny, fortune, hazard, ill-luck, fatality, star, and perhaps the word Providence, will assume in his mind a significance they never have assumed before.

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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.