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...Fellow students termed him eccentric, "crazy," because he gave the poor his allowance, his possessions, everything but meagre necessities. He made his room a hermit-like cell. He wanted to live the life of Christ, he would say. He entered Harvard, where he played football and baseball. His mystic generosity continued. He zealously tried to found a monastic order, The Brotherhood of the Daily Life. He dressed as a laborer and preached to mid-day crowds. The Brotherhood never materialized. After Harvard he went to Oxford, joined George Bernard Shaw's Fabian Society. After Oxford he studied medicine...
...Paris last week a member of the Prince of the Asturias' suite explained: "The cure was nothing mystic, not even medical, it was merely exercise. As you know, his Royal Highness could scarcely walk two years ago. For fear that he might stumble and cut himself he was kept as much as possible in a sitting or recumbent position...
...Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth...
...suddenly discovered behind a juniper thicket a whole band of Roumanians digging themselves in; my first impulse was to tell the officer, but then I felt discouraged and said nothing." One of his duties was to help censor the men's letters to their families. One private's words, mystic, poetical, moved him very much. When the man was killed, Carossa took his papers, read one of the poems to the company when they were under shellfire in the open. The men did not understand it but they said they liked it, it made them feel better...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...