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For Emerson was essentially a prophet and theosophist, and not a man of letters, or creative artist.— Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman
All over our border or frontier there are innumerable families who have kept up feuds to the death, or vendettas_, in some cases for more than a century; and now, in the absence of all civil law, these were engaged in wreaking their old grudges without restraint, and assuredly not sparing any stranger who came between them I had a friend in C. A. Dana, the Assistant-Secretary of War, and another in Colonel Henry Olcott, since known as the theosophist.— Memoirs
This may be regarded as Dr. Pascal's last public appearance as an active theosophist, for his subsequent prolonged stay in the South of France effected no radical improvement in the state of his health Returning to Paris in March, 1908, and realising how impossible it was for him to fulfil the duties incumbent on a General Secretary, he decided to resign his post.— Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution
The whole thing was abruptly given up, and January found her in Grosvenor Square, much disgusted with her persecution by Fate, and wondering what on earth was to become of her In such crises she generally sent for Susan Fleet, if the theosophist were within reach.— The Way of Ambition
Do you care for her Yes, I do Oh, I don't mean as a theosophist, I mean as a human being Susan smiled.— The Way of Ambition

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