Death
by Maurice Maeterlinck
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About this eBook
- Author
- Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949
- Credits
- E-text prepared by D Alexander, Juliet Sutherland, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BD: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Speculative Philosophy, General Philosophical works
- Subject
- Death
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31354
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31354
- Release Date
- February 22, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.DEATH — BY
- 2.MAURICE MAETERLINCK — TRANSLATED BY — ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS — NEW YORK — DODD, MEAD & COMPANY — 1912
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.I — OUR IDEA OF DEATH
- 5.II — A PRIMITIVE IDEA
- 6.III — WE MUST ENLIGHTEN AND ESTABLISH OUR IDEA OF DEATH
- 7.IV — WE MUST RID DEATH OF THAT WHICH GOES BEFORE
- 8.V — THE PANGS OF DEATH MUST BE ATTRIBUTED TO MAN ALONE
- 9.VI — THE MISTAKE OF THE DOCTORS IN PROLONGING THE PANGS OF DEATH
- 10.VII — THEIR ARGUMENTS
- 11.VIII — THAT WHICH DOES NOT BELONG TO DEATH
- 12.IX — THE HORRORS OF THE GRAVE ALSO DO NOT BELONG TO DEATH
- 13.X — WHEN CONTEMPLATING THE UNKNOWN INTO WHICH DEATH HURLS US, LET US FIRST PUT RELIGIOUS FEARS FROM OUR MINDS
- 14.XI — ANNIHILATION IMPOSSIBLE
- 15.XII — THE SURVIVAL OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
- 16.XIII — IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE
- 17.XIV — THE SAME, CONTINUED
- 18.XV — IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, IT WOULD NOT BE DREADFUL
- 19.XVI — THE SURVIVAL WITHOUT CONSCIOUSNESS
- 20.XVII — THE SAME, CONTINUED
- 21.XVIII — THE LIMITED EGO WOULD BECOME A TORTURE
- 22.XIX — A NEW EGO CAN FIND A NUCLEUS AND DEVELOP ITSELF IN INFINITY
- 23.XX — THE ONLY SORROW THAT CAN TOUCH OUR MIND
- 24.XXI — INFINITY AS CONCEIVED BY OUR REASON
- 25.XXII — INFINITY AS PERCEIVED BY OUR SENSES
- 26.XXIII — WHICH OF THE TWO SHALL WE KNOW?
- 27.XXIV — THE INFINITY WHICH BOTH OUR REASON AND OUR SENSES CAN ADMIT
- 28.XXV — OUR FATE IN INFINITY
- 29.XXVI — THE SAME, CONTINUED
- 30.XXVII — SHALL WE BE UNHAPPY THERE?
- 31.XXVIII — QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS
- 32.XXIX — THE SAME, CONTINUED
- 33.XXX — IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO ANSWER THEM
- 34.XXXI — EVERYTHING MUST FINISH EXEMPT FROM SUFFERING — Footnotes: — Transcriber’s Note:
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