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90 Gerhart Hauptmann
needs, but because she does not understand and
does not know how.
Into this atmosphere comes Anna Mahr like a
breeze from the plains. Anna is a Russian girl,
a woman so far produced in Russia only, perhaps
because the conditions, the life struggles of that
country have been such as to develop a different
type of woman. Anna Mahr has spent most of
her life on the firing line. She has no conception
of the personal: she is universal in her feelings
and thoughts, with deep sympathies going out in
abundance to all mankind.
When she comes to the Vockerats, their whole
life is disturbed, especially that of John Fockerat,
to whom she is like a balmy spring to the parched
wanderer in the desert. She understands him,
for has she not dreamed such thoughts as his,
associated with men and women who, for the sake
of the ideal, sacrificed their lives, went to Siberia,
and suffered in the underground dungeons?
How then could she fail a Vockerat? It is quite
natural that John should find in Anna what his
own little world could not give him, understand
ing, comradeship, deep spiritual kinship.
The Anna Mahrs give the same to any one, be
it man, woman or child. For theirs is not a feel
ing of sex, of the personal; it is the selfless, the
human, the all-embracing fellowship.
In the invigorating presence of Anna Mahr,
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