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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
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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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