Gliding about among the children are taller figures, "clad in a paler and more diaphanous azure, figures of a sovereign and silent beauty"-the race which shall inhabit the earth when man has made way for his offspring the superman.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
To be quite short, Maeterlinck's man of the future is essentially the superman.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell