Quotes:Hyslop, James Henri

Boris de Zirkoff

Hyslop, James Henri. American educator, b. at Xenis, O., August 18, 1854, d. June 17, 1920. Son of Robert Hyslop; graduated at the Univ. of Wooster, O., 1877; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1887; married, Oct. 1, 1891, Mary Fry Hall, Philadelphia, Penn.; taught in the University of Lake Forest, Ill.; Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; Bucknell Univ., Lewisburgh, Penna.; and Columbia Univ., where he was Prof. of Logic and Ethics. Works: Elements of Logic, 1892. - Ethics of Hume, 1893. - Elements of Ethics, 1895. - Syllabus of Psychology, 1899. - Articles and Reviews in various magazines and the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, and later, as his interest in psychic research developed: Science and a Future Life, 1905. - Enigmas of Psychic Research, 1906. - Psychic Research and the Resurrection, 1908. - Psychic Research and Survival, 1913. - Life after Death, 1918. - Contact with the Other World, 1919.

Hyslop was present at the meetings of September 8 and October 16, 1875, when The Theosophical Society was proposed and organized, but he later lost interest in it.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 470