Quotes:Cruden, Alexander

Zirkoff, Boris

Cruden, Dr. Alexander (1701-70). No specific work mentioned ; quotation un traced.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 366

Cruden, Alexander. English Scholar, b. at Aberdeen, May 31, 1701; d. in London, Nov. 1, 1770. Educ. at Marischal College in native city. After a term of confinement for insanity, settled in London as a tutor, then as a bookseller, holding title of Bookseller to the Queen. In 1737, he completed his Biblical Concordance, a work which has become a classic, running through a large number of editions. Cruden’s piety and exceptional intellectual powers were marred by periods of insanity; after recovering for the second time, he published an account of his harsh treatment and sufferings, 1738. About 1740, he became proof-reader, checking on several editions of Greek and Latin classics. Adopting the title of “Alexander the Corrector,” he assumed the office of correcting the morals of the nation. On being released from a third confinement for insanity, he published The Adventures of Alexander the Corrector (1755). He is also the author of a Scripture Dictionary and a verbal index to Milton. The latest ed. of his monumental Concordance is of 1936.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 411