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<center>AS EXPLAINED BY M. ÉMILE BURNOUF, THE FRENCH ORIENTALIST<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Curiously enough, Émile Burnouf’s remarks on The Theosophical Society and its work in the world were translated into English and published by Col. H. S. Olcott as the leading article in the October number of The Theosophist, almost at the same time when H.P.B. was inserting her own essay in the pages of Lucifer. In reviewing the August, 1888, issue of Lucifer, the Colonel said: “By a curious coincidence the number under review commences, as does our own Magazine of this month, with a translation of part of É. Burnouf’s courteous and sympathetic article on the Theosophical Society. Had not the earlier portion of our issue been in type before the arrival of Lucifer, we should have added some of Madame Blavatsky’s comments in the form of foot-notes for the benefit of our readers; but that being now impossible, we append a few of the more important remarks in this place” (The Theosophist, Vol. X, October, 1888, p. 66). In a footnote appended to the translation, Col. Olcott says also: “. . . . the appearance of such an article by such a man and in such a magazine undoubtedly shows that the Theosophical Society has already attained a position in the world of Western thought which its most ardent supporters could hardly yet have expected, considering the tremendous forces against which it has to struggle.”—Compiler.]}}</ref></center>

<center>[Lucifer, Vol. II, No. 12, August, 1888, pp. 421-433]</center>

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It has seldom been the good fortune of the Theosophical Society to meet with such courteous and even sympathetic treatment as it has received at the hands of Émile Burnouf, the well-known Sanskritist, in an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes (Vol. 88, July 15, 1888)—“Le Bouddhisme en Occident.”