Abstract

This is a moving human record of a quiet sage reflecting in the almost lost art of conversation upon the eternal topics of the human condition—history, science, religion, personality—ending with the frank admission: ‘This awareness of worth in human beings develops very early. Most attempts to formulate it in words fail... one always knew it when encountered. Truly, I may say to you that this is the only thing of any importance that I know; and, as you see, I cannot communicate it.... Words do not express our deepest intuitions. In the very act of being verbalized they escape us’.