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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days, by Hall Caine 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.org Title: The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War - 1915 Author: Hall Caine Release Date: May 23, 2008 [EBook #25573] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRAMA OF 365 DAYS *** Produced by David Widger THE DRAMA OF THREE HUNDRED & SIXTY-FIVE DAYS SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR By Hall Caine J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY - 1915 DEDICATED TO THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE THE DRAMA OF 365 DAYS THE INVISIBLE CONFLICT Mr. Maeterlinck has lately propounded the theory {*} that what we call the war is neither more nor less than the visible expression of a vast invisible conflict. The unseen forces of good and evil in the universe are using man as a means of contention. On the result of the struggle the destiny of humanity on this planet depends. Is the Angel to prevail? Or is the Beast to prolong his malignant existence? The issue hangs on Fate, which does not, however, deny the exercise of the will of man. Mystical and even fantastic as the theory may seem to be, there is no resisting its appeal. A glance back over the events of the past year leaves us again and again without clue to cause and effect. It is impossible to account for so many things that have happened. We cannot always say, "We did this because of that," or "Our enemies did that because of the other." Time after time we can find no reason why things happened as they have--so unaccountable and so contradictory have they seemed to be. The dark work wrought by Death during the past year has been done in the blackness of a night in which none can read. Hence some of us are forced to yield to Mr. Maeterlinck's theory, which is, I think, the theory of the ancients--the theory on which the Greeks built their plays--that invisible powers of good and evil, operating in regions that are above and beyond man's control, are working out his destiny in this monstrous drama of the war. * The Daily Chronicle. And what a drama it has been already! We had w
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