and 27 daughters, for all of whose education he has made provision and to which he
has given his attention.

He rather impressed me as being something of a Walt Whitman in oriental terms, which
neither describes nor explains him. He is an interesting study in himself, defying
such analogy. He would resent such study and in no uncertain term would put the
observer back into his proper place.

His knowledge of human nature and all its foibles seems perfect and he does not
hesitate to use this knowledge for his own ends although with a conscience that sees
to it that they get something worthwhile out of his using them. Not caring at all for
America or Americans he has come over here, as he frankly puts it, "to sheer the sheep".
He will turn the wool into some kind of good work for humanity. His hypnotic powers
have served him well in this connection but he is more careful now in exercising them.
American fruits and foods he finds unfit to eat - likes only TomATOE Juice and our
Dollars. But eats enormously just the same. The style of our money he approves. But
the shearing I imagine is not so good. The wool is now so short. Notwithstanding
super-bundance of personal idiosyncrasy, George Gurdjieff seems to have the stuff in
him of which our genuine prophets have been made. And when prejudice against him has
cleared away his vision of truth will be recognized as fundamental to the man men need.

Frank Lloyd Wright