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Myrmecologists divide ants into eight series, have listed 6,000 species. Says Maeterlinck: all the higher species have a communistic unselfishness inconceivable to Man, a consequent social discipline superior to any human government. Some ants have organized armies, wage offensive wars; some own slaves; some keep herds of "cattle" (plant lice); some cultivate mushrooms. For non-carnivorous ants (the great majority) the greatest pleasure in life seems to be disgorging for others the food they have laboriously ac cumulated: "For her [the ant] regurgitation must be an act as delightful as is for us the degustation of the choicest meats...
Said Solomon (rhetorically) to the Sluggard: "Go to the ant!" No sluggard, but a scientific inquirer whose researches have not damped his mystical inquisitiveness, Maurice Maeterlinck has gone to the ant, observed its actions, noted down many a formicine phenomenon in this exciting little book...
Poet Maurice Maeterlinck (The Blue-bird), gracefully wrote her: "My greetings and love to the girl who has found the Bluebird...
...Maurice Maeterlinck, 67, Belgian poet, explained to the Revue Beige why he has lived in France most of his life: "If I had remained in Belgium, I should have become a 'miserable macrobite' among the small bourgeois who surrounded me. Belgium professed, at the time when I lived there, a deep hatred of letters. Men who had talent found themselves up against things unless they gave up their art. It was only toward 1880 that things began to change...
...diamond merchant. In Holland he appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom he had met, and collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored as a Cardinal's relative. At gay Biarritz he was the son of Poet Maurice Maeterlinck. With graces and fantasies almost super-Maeterlinckian he solicited $25,000 to erect a statue to his father...