to assist him especially with this latter, more ambitious, project. Dunlop died in 1935 before this plan could be brought to fruition, but Stein did bring about Dunlop's wish for an independent cultural journal in the form of The Present Age. Stein, having taken up various studies in economics, geography, and geology for his collaborative work with Dunlop, was able to bring together the results of this work in a special issue of the journal under the title The Earth as a Basis of World Economy. The publication of the journal ceased with the start of the Second World War. During and after the Second World War Stein made many connections in government circles in Britain, as well as with the Dutch and Belgian royal families. Fictionalization Stein is one of the chief characters in Trevor Ravenscroft's books The Spear of Destiny and The Cup of Destiny. Though Ravenscroft claimed that he had been a pupil of Stein's, investigative reporter Eric Wynants discovered the Stein/Ravenscroft connection was a complete fabrication while interviewing Ravenscroft for an article in 1982. Notes External links articles from The Present Age 1891 births 1957 deaths Austrian Jews Writers from Vienna 20th-century Austrian philosophers Jewish philosophers Anthroposophists Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Arthurian legend