Here ends Verhaeren's ethic work. And I believe that no exaltation, no knowledge can again change this last pure form, or make it still more beautiful. A vast expenditure of force, the effort of one of our strongest and most incomparable men, has here reached its goal. Once force seemed to him to be the strength of the world; now, however, in his purer knowledge, he sees it in goodness, in admiration, in that force which, with the same intensity as turned it outwards of old, is now directed inwards; which no longer constrains to conquest, but to self-surrender, to a boundless humility. Over the immense savagery and apparent chaos of the first works this knowledge now arches this rainbow of reconciliation, over _Les Forcés Tumultueuses_ shines _La Multiple Splendeur_. And to himself may be applied the words he dedicated to his hymn of all humanity--'La joie et la bonté sont les fleurs de sa force.'[25] FOOTNOTES: [1] G. Le Cardonnel et Ch. Vellay, _La Littérature Contemporaine._ [2] 'Autour de ma Maison' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [3] _Ecce Homo!_. [4] 'La Ferveur' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [5] 'La Vie' (_Ibid._). [6] 'L'Action' (_Les Visages de la Vie_). [7] 'L'Impossible' (_Les Forces Tumultueuses_). [8] 'Les Rêves' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [9] 'L'Impossible' (_Les Forces Tumultueuses_). [10] 'Un Soir' (_Les Forces Tumultueuses_). [11] 'La Ferveur' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [12] 'Autour de ma Maison' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [13] 'La Joie' (_Ibid_.). [14] 'L'En-avant' (_Les Forces Tumultueuses_). [15] 'La Louange du Corps Humain' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [16] _Ibid. (Ibid.)_ [17] 'La Vie' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [18] 'Guillaume de Juliers' (_Les Héros_). [19] 'Un Matin' (_Les Forces Tumultueuses_). [20] 'Un Matin' (_Les Forces Tumultueuses_). [21] _Ibid. (Ibid.)_. [22] 'La Joie' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [23] 'Léon Bazalgette', _Émile Verhaeren_. [24] 'La Ferveur' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). [25] 'Les Mages' (_La Multiple Splendeur_). LOVE Ceux qui vivent d'amour vivent d'éternité. E.V., _Les Heures d'après-midi._