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...Tall?rigid?lean?gray of face?heavy-lidded eyes of an almost Asian deadness?stonelike?impassive?like a figure from the pages of Dostoievsky?like a poor Russian nobleman," so the newspapermen found him, the greatest living Platonist, the world's most provoking mystic. The newsmen plied him with their trademarked questions. He was polite...
...Mystic Can Endure the Blaze...
...There is something we call mysticism, which is a very real thing in life. Science makes us look closely at every aspect of our civilization and in studying out each separate problem, we find ourselves working on diverging lines, each logically and scientifically founded. Most of us can only look one way and see the lines diverging; the mystic is the man who can turn around and see the center. He finds himself and his work to be one; he has found the unity of life. The highest degree of mystic is he who can look at the centre...
Consider, too, the sociological import of such an event. The working man may abandon overalls in favor of riding breeches, after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York...
...other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes. Something of the mystic, something of the comedian and a little of the clown, he looks at life with great enthusiasm and tempers that enthusiasm with a wit that is at once tender and ironical...