Quotes:Gurney, Edmund

Zirkoff, Boris

Gurney, Edmund. English philosophical writer and student of music, b. March 23, 1847, at Hersham, Surrey; d. at Brighton, June 23, 1888. His early interests were music, poetry, and the Classics; he attained a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1872; by 1879, he had written a serious work titled The Power of Sound. His intense sympathy with human suffering made him engage in the study of medicine; his high ethical standards made him rebel against vivisection and he wrote in opposition to its practice, a position which was endorsed at the time by Darwin himself. After a period in which his interests had turned to the study of law, his restless mind turned to the consideration of subjects connected with the unseen world. He became in 1882 one of the organizers of the Society for Psychical Research, and one of its most active workers. Together with F.W.H. Myers and F. Podmore, he produced a large work in two volumes entitled Phantasms of the Living (London, 1886). He collected many 650 of his philosophical writings in a two volume work entitled Tertium Quid (1887). Many of his articles appeared in the publications of the Society which he helped to found.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, pp. 649-650