Abstract

The Mage of Darmstadt

The article focuses on the book "Creative Understanding and the Recovery of Truth," by Hermann Keyserling. Keyserling is a count who has bounded down upon the world from those regions somewhere round the Baltic which once were Russia and now are a number of petty states. He has the distinction of having married into the family of Bismarck; he has written a book against feminism; and he has founded a school in Darmstadt, Germany. He has now produced two new volumes of wisdom, in either of which one is referred for fuller explanation to the other. The book starts on its philosophical travels in these thousand pages with a lamentation over the bankruptcy and barbarism of the present civilization and its cult of "making all things easy."