Quotes:Assier, Adolphe d’

Zirkoff, Boris

Assier, Adolphe d’. French scientist and philosopher, b. 1828 at Bastide de Sérou (Ariège). Prof, of mathematics; member, Bordeaux Academy of Sciences. Editor, Revue d‘Aquitaine et du Languedoc, 1869-70. Offered his services to Gambetta, 1870, and founded newspaper La Patrie en Danger in Ariège. Returned to Bordeaux, 1871, then retired at Aulus. Valuable studies in the science of languages. Works: Essai de Grammaire Générale d’après la comparaison des principales langues indo-européennes, 1868. — Histoire naturelle du Language, 1868 — Essai de Philosophie Positive, 3 vols., 1870,1881,1889.—*Essai sur l’Humanité Posthume et le Spiritisme, par un Positiviste. Paris, 1883. New ed. as Revenants et Fantômes. English trans, by Col. H. S. Olcott, as Posthumous Humanity: A Study of Phantoms, with annotations and Appendix showing the popular beliefs current in India respecting the post-mortem vicissitudes of the Human Entity. London: Geo. Redway, 1887. xxiv, 360 pp.. Rpr. Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego, 1981.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 370