Quotes:Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Zirkoff, Boris

Frothingham, Octavius Brooks. American clergyman and author, b. in Boston, Nov. 26, 1822; d. Nov. 27, 1895. Graduated from Harvard, 1843, later its Divinity School, 1846. Pastorates at Unitarian churches in Salem, New York and Jersey City. Returned to Boston and spent remainder of life writing. Being very broadminded, he became the first president of the National Free Religious Association, 1867, an anti-slavery leader and an ardent early disciple of Darwin and Spencer. Chief works: Life of Theodore Parker, 1874.—The Spirit of New Faith, 1877. — Transcendentalism in New England, 1876.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 648