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| source title = Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = | | source details = No. 275, November 30, 1877, p. 257 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|Dr. Carpenter}} having spoken (as usual, upon mere hearsay) in terms of offensive disparagement of my friend, Colonel Olcott, in a footnote to his article in ''Fraser, ''I ask leave to place before your readers some particulars respecting the literary, scientific and public career of this honourable and not undistinguished gentleman, which I obtained from him during my stay in New York two years ago, when I was honoured with his intimate acquaintance. A day or two before I left for England, it occurred to me that before very long the question might be asked here, “Who is this Colonel Olcott, who makes these amazing statements to the world?” and that it would be desirable that there should be some one able to reply upon the spot. Accordingly I got my friend to give me a history of his antecedents, which he not only did, but accompanied it with plentiful vouchers in the shape of original letters, documents, and other testimonies, understanding my object, and good-humouredly proffering proofs which one gentleman could not ask of another without immediate and business-like occasion. | ||
{{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |4-94}} | At a very early period of life Colonel Olcott was called upon to make his own way, and soon learned that knowledge of the world and of mankind which of all knowledge is the least favourable to a habit of credulity, or to deception by impostors. He travelled, and rubbed shoulders with all kinds of people; and at forty-three, when I made his acquaintance, was about as hard-headed, and as little disposed to an innocently charitable estimate of character or pretensions as anybody I ever met. Agricultural pursuits and inquiries first engaged his attention, and were, I believe, the occasion of his early travels. He became a recognised authority on these subjects, was the author of three works on scientific agriculture; one, on the Chinese and African sugarcane, which passed through seven editions. He was for some time agricultural editor of the ''Nero York Tribune, ''and correspondent of our ''Mark Lane Express. ''His Government offered him a commissionership of agriculture. While yet young, he became a lawyer, not practising in the courts, but {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on |4-94}} | ||
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london_spiritualist_n.275_1877-11-30.pdf|page=7|London Spiritualist, No. 275, November 30, 1877, p. 257 | |||
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