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«Je Vous prie Monsieur de vouloir bien agréer mes sentiments très distingués.<br>

«Je Vous prie Monsieur de vouloir bien agréer mes sentiments très distingués.<br>

 

{{Style P-Signature|Général Rostislaw Fadéeff.»}}<br>

(Signed) Général Rostislaw Fadéeff.»<br>

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{{HPB-CW-comment|[The English translation of the above being as follows:]}}<br>

{{HPB-CW-comment|[The English translation of the above being as follows:]}}<br>

St. Petersburg, 23 Little Morskaya St.

St. Petersburg, 23 Little Morskaya St.

18/30 September, 1881.}}

18/30 September, 1881.}}

 

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Taken in connection with the official documents published in the Supplement to The Theosophist of December, 1881, concerning the social status in America of Colonel Olcott, these explanations may, it is hoped, lay at rest {{Page aside|448}} once for all the wonderful question on which many people in India have wasted a good deal of speculation, whether the undersigned are or are not “adventurers.” They were most unwilling in the beginning to make any fuss about their own personality, or the worldly sacrifices they have made in the hope of serving the principle of “Universal Brotherhood” and of contributing to revive the philosophical self-respect of the Indian people. But when malevolent antagonists—as short sighted as they are vindictive—attempt to impede the progress of Theosophy by trying to represent its Apostles in the country as self-seeking aspirants for contemptible worldly advantage, it is time to show once for all, by an exhibition of the worldly advantages they have chosen to surrender, the abject absurdity of this miserable accusation.

Taken in connection with the official documents published in the Supplement to The Theosophist of December, 1881, concerning the social status in America of Colonel Olcott, these explanations may, it is hoped, lay at rest {{Page aside|448}} once for all the wonderful question on which many people in India have wasted a good deal of speculation, whether the undersigned are or are not “adventurers.” They were most unwilling in the beginning to make any fuss about their own personality, or the worldly sacrifices they have made in the hope of serving the principle of “Universal Brotherhood” and of contributing to revive the philosophical self-respect of the Indian people. But when malevolent antagonists—as short sighted as they are vindictive—attempt to impede the progress of Theosophy by trying to represent its Apostles in the country as self-seeking aspirants for contemptible worldly advantage, it is time to show once for all, by an exhibition of the worldly advantages they have chosen to surrender, the abject absurdity of this miserable accusation.