Quotes:Conway, Moncure D.

Zirkoff, Boris

Conway, Moncure Daniel. American clergyman and author, b. Meh. 17, 1832, Stafford Co., Virginia; d. Nov. 15, 1907, at Paris. Grad. Dickinson Coll., 1849; stud, law one year; became Methodist minister in Virginia; owing mainly to Emerson’s influence, entered Harvard Divinity School, 1853; grad., 1854; his abolitionist views aroused bitter hostility and brought dismissal from Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.; minister First Congreg. Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1856-61; edited The Dial and the Commonwealth, Boston. During Civil War lectured in England on behalf of the North; minister, So. Place Chapel, Finsbury, London, 1863-84. Travelled extensively in various parts of the world. Returned to U.S.A., 1884. His Autobiography contains sketches of important figures of the 19th century, by whom he was esteemed as leader of liberal thought. Author of: Idols and Ideals, N.Y., H. Hold & Co., 1871.—Republican Superstitions, Lond., H. S. King & Co., 1872.—The Wandering Jew, N.Y., H. Holt & Co., 1881.—The Life of Thomas Paine, N.Y., London, G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1892, 2 vols. 432 —Autobiography, Boston & N.Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904.— My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East, Boston & N.Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906, viii, 416.—*“A Tour Round the World—The Theosophists,” The Glasgow Herald, No. 88, April 11, 1884 (dated from Adyar, January, 1884).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, pp. 431-432