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Keyserling in his Travel Diary of a Philosopher2 states, 'For man is not only man, he is simultaneously, in various parts of his being, animal, plant, rock and sea; only he rarely becomes conscious of the fact and only knows how to feel as a human being'.
No matter how many times down through the centuries this general concept of mnemic binding of external contacts though internal integration has been expressed, now in one form, now in another, the essential unity of outside and inside relationships remains an outstanding bit of reality.
As one traverses the world we live in with this genial philosopher in this self-same Diary, one is uncertain whether most to be struck by the richness of the objective manifestations detailed, or to marvel at the ingenuity of penetration of the internal subjective concentrations suggested.
Glimpsing through the innumerable fascinating vistas opened by Keyserling one is impressed again and again with the general plan of bipolarity underlying all the external and internal manifestations which have come under his observation, and, as an aside, just as he counsels a year's stay in Benares for those who would wish to get into the inside of the religious experience, and a year's compulsory residence in China for our self-sufficient men of ethics and morals, so, in this same spirit of counsel, I can conceive of no better suggestion to the psycho-analytic student to travel once at least around the world and study deeply the bipolar types of expression of the human organism.3
As, from the objective point of view, the macrocosmic canvas will