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Maxim Gorki
he is here for another s benefit for someone better . . .
a hundred years ... or perhaps longer ... if we live
so long . . . for the sake of genius. . . . All, my chil
dren, all, live only to give birth to strength. For that
reason we must respect everybody. We cannot know
who he is, for what purpose born, or what he may yet
fulfill . . . perhaps he has been born for our good for
tune ... or great benefit."
No stronger indictment than
"
A Night s Lodg
ing
"
is to be found in contemporary literature of
our perverse civilization that condemns thousands
often the very best men and women to the
fate of the Vaskas and Anyas, doomed as super
fluous and unnecessary in society. And yet they
are necessary, aye, they are vital, could we but see
beneath the veil of cold indifference and stupidity
to discover the deep humanity, the latent possibili
ties in these lowliest of the low. If within our so
cial conditions they are useless material, often
vicious and detrimental to the general good, it is
because they have been denied opportunity and
forced into conditions that kill their faith in them
selves and all that is best in their natures.
The so-called depravity and crimes of these
derelicts are fundamentally the depravity and crim
inal anti-social attitude of Society itself that first
creates the underworld and, having created it,
wastes much energy and effort in suppressing and
destroying the menacing phantom of its own mak-
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