Quotes:Howard, John

Zirkoff, Boris

Howard, John. English philanthropist and reformer, b. Hackney, London, Sept. 2, 1726(?); d. Kherson, Russia, Jan. 20, 1790. As High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1773, discovered many abuses in the management of jails; due to his efforts, Parliament enacted, 1774, several reforms; other reforms resulted from his work, The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, 1777. Travelled widely through Europe inspecting prisons. Howard League for Penal Reform became powerful body in Britain. Due to his influence, the Philadelphia Soc. for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, first of its kind in U.S.A., was established. He died in Russia of camp fever during one of his inspection trips.

Passage quoted from his writings has not been identified, owing to lack of any reference whatsoever.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, p. 438