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{{Page aside|326}}{{Style P-No indent|Science. Read this book: never, throughout my long & sad life, never was there so much of uncalled for, contemptuous contempt & suspicion lavished upon an innocent woman as I find here in the few pages published by so-called friends!}}
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Dead or alive I will never forgive Col. Olcott for having thrust<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Madame Blavatsky’s bitter mention of Col. Olcott’s part in this tragi-comic investigation probably refers to his naive ambition to convert the skeptics of the Society for Psychical Research to a favorable viewpoint by his inadequate personal efforts (see A. P. Sinnett, Early Days of Theosophy in Europe, pp. 56, 59) and his careless offer of official assistance without proper safeguards against their hostile investigations (see Old Diary Leaves, III, p. 100).—Compiler.]}}</ref> himself & our phenomena upon the attention of the gentlemen Scientists of the P. R. S.
Dead or alive I will never forgive Col. Olcott for having thrust<ref>{{HPB-CW-comment|[Madame Blavatsky’s bitter mention of Col. Olcott’s part in this tragi-comic investigation probably refers to his naive ambition to convert the skeptics of the Society for Psychical Research to a favorable viewpoint by his inadequate personal efforts (see A. P. Sinnett, Early Days of Theosophy in Europe, pp. 56, 59) and his careless offer of official assistance without proper safeguards against their hostile investigations (see Old Diary Leaves, III, p. 100).—Compiler.]}}</ref> himself & our phenomena upon the attention of the gentlemen Scientists of the P. R. S.