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Keyserling. The extremely tall, incessantly restless philosopher whose domed cranium and pointed chin give his head the shape of a child's peg top is Count Hermann Keyserling, 47, head of the Darmstadt School of Wisdom, and creator of sensitive, soul piercing books.* Like the humming of a peg top is Count Keyserling's conversation. He chattered and he lectured in perfect English, last week, to lionizing Manhattanites, but so rapidly and with so much finger-waggling that some were abashed and others annoyed...
Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...
Rotarians were especially puzzled by Count Keyserling since their official mottoes are "Service Above Self" and "He Profits Most Who Serves Best." For all who simply cannot understand philosophy, Count Keyserling has pap. Example: "America is ruled by women...
...gold at the end of the rainbow is an old, jaded story, and the fleshpot an older. His successive wives have meant much to him, but so have the enormous slumbers and epicurean dinners which he loves. His selfishness is not the mystic ego culture of Count Keyserling but something earthy, practical...
...Count, who is an Esthonian Philosopher, believes that the Bolshovist regime is in Russia to stay. He has written several books, and also essays for the magazine section of the New York Times. Keyserling is at present undertaking a lecture tour through the United States...