Quotes:Dean, Richard

Zirkoff, Boris

Dean, Richard. English author; b. at Kirkby-in-Craven, Yorkshire, about 1727; d. at Middleton, Feb. 8, 1778. First, curate of Royton Chapel; then, curate of Middleton. Master of the Middleton Grammar school. He wrote An Essay on the Future Life of Brutes (Manchester, 1767, 2 vols.) in which he argued for the reasonableness of believing in the future existence of lower animals. His views were contradicted by James Rothwell. H. P. B. quotes a passage written by him in the Bibliothèque des Sciences, Vol. XXIX, 1st Trimestre, 1768.

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