Maeterlinck's imagination has been compared "to a lake with desolate and stagnant waters, unceasingly reflecting the same black landscapes, on whose banks the same suffering personages for ever come to sit."
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
Relative over-population is of three kinds: current, latent, and stagnant.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
By stagnant over-population Marx means that which is shown in certain branches of industry, where none of the workmen are thrown back entirely into the reserve, but none get full regular employment.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae