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'''Cicero, Marcus Tullius (107 B.C.-43 b.c.)'''. *De Natura Deorum. Parallel Latin and English texts in the Loeb Classical Library.

'''Cocker, Rev. Benjamin F. (1821-83)'''. *Christianity and Greek Philosophy; or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and his apostles. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 8vo.

'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>Codex Nazaraeus''', “Liber Adami” appellatus, Syriace transcriptus . . . Latineque redditus a Matthias Norberg. 3 vols. Londini Gotho- rum, 1815, 16. 4to. Text is transcribed into Syrian character, and the Mandaean dialect of the original is merely translated into High Syrian. The Book is called Sittra Rabba or the “Great Book” by the Mandaeans themselves. (British Museum: 753.f.2.)

'''Collins, (William) Wilkie'''. English novelist, b. London, Jan. 8, 1824; d. Sept. 23, 1889. Educated at Highbury; travelled for three years with parents in Italy. At seventeen, apprenticed to a firm engaged in tea trade. Wrote then his first novel, Antonina (publ. only in 1850). Studied law at Lincoln’s Inn, and was called to the bar, 1851, when he also met Charles Dickens with whom he formed ties of intimate friendship, resulting in literary collaboration on several works. Came to the U.S.A., 1873-74. Considered as father of English detective story. Best known works: The Woman in White (1860); The Moonstone (1868).

Passage quoted by H. P. B. from Collins’ writings has not been identified owing to complete lack of reference as to source.

'''Conway, Moncure Daniel'''. American clergyman and author, b. Meh. 17, 1832, Stafford Co., Virginia; d. Nov. 15, 1907, at Paris. Grad. Dickinson Coll., 1849; stud, law one year; became Methodist minister in Virginia; owing mainly to Emerson’s influence, entered Harvard Divinity School, 1853; grad., 1854; his abolitionist views aroused bitter hostility and brought dismissal from Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C.; minister First Congreg. Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1856-61; edited The Dial and the Commonwealth, Boston. During Civil War lectured in England on behalf of the North; minister, So. Place Chapel, Finsbury, London, 1863-84. Travelled extensively in various parts of the world. Returned to U.S.A., 1884. His Autobiography contains sketches of important figures of the 19th century, by whom he was esteemed as leader of liberal thought. Author of: Idols and Ideals, N.Y., H. Hold & Co., 1871.-—Republican Superstitions, Lond., H. S. King & Co., 1872.—The Wandering Jew, N.Y., H. Holt & Co., 1881.—The Life of Thomas Paine, N.Y., London, G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1892, 2 vols. {{Page aside|432}}—Autobiography, Boston & N.Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904.— My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East, Boston & N.Y., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906, viii, 416.—*“A Tour Round the World—The Theosophists,” The Glasgow Herald, No. 88, April 11, 1884 (dated from Adyar, January, 1884).

'''Coulomb, Madame Emma'''. *Some Account of My Association with Madame Blavatsky from 1872 to 1884; with a number of Additional Letters and a Full Explanation of the most Marvellous Theosophical Phenomena. Published for the Proprietors of the Madras Christian College Magazine, by Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, London, E. C., 1885 [issued, acc. to Col. H. S. Olcott’s Diaries, December 23, 1884].

'''Denton, William (1823-1883) and Elizabeth M'''. Foote Denton. *The Soul of Things, or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries. 3rd ed., rev., Boston: Walker, Wise and Co., 1866, viii, 370 pp. *Divine Pymander, The. Translated from Arabic by Dr. Everard, 1650.

New ed., London: Geo. Redway, 1884.

'''Dondukov-Korsakov, Prince Alexander Mihaylovich (1820-1893)'''. Distinguished Russian military man and administrator. First aide- de-camp, 1869, to the Viceroy of the Caucasus, Prince Mihail Semyonovich Vorontzov; then Governor-General of the Provinces of Kiev, Podol’ and Volin’; Imperial Russian Commissar in Bulgaria, 1878; Commander of the military forces of the Caucasian military district, 1882-90, and Director of civil authorities in the Caucasus. General of Cavalry. Great friend of H. P. B. and of her family.

'''Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)'''. *“The Silver Hatchet,” in the Christmas Annual, 1883.

'''Draper, John William'''. American scientist, b. May 5, 1811, at St. Helen’s near Liverpool; d. Jan. 4, 1882, at Hastings, N.Y. Studied at Woodhouse Grove, Univ, of London, and the Medical School of the Univ, of Penna., 1835-36; elected Med. Prof., N.Y. University, 1837; Prof, of Chemistry, 1839; Prof. N.Y. School of Medicine, 1840-50; President of that School, 1850-73, and Prof, of Chern, until 1881. Made important researches in photo-chemistry. Among the first ones to take human portrait by light, made possible by his improvements on Daguerre’s process. Responsible to a great extent for prominence of N.Y.C. as center of medical education. Works: A Treatise on the Forces which Produce the Organization in Plants, N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1844.—A Text Book on Chemistry, N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1846, etc.—*History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, 1863; 5th ed., N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1869.—History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, N.Y., D. Appleton & Co., 1875, etc.—Scientific Memoirs, N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1878, 8vo.

'''Eleazar I (Lazar, Eleazar Ben Shammua’)'''. Mishnaic teacher of the fourth generation, frequently cited in rabbinical writings without his patronymic (Ab. iv. 12; Git. iii, 8, incorrectly “Eliezer”; comp. Gem. Git. 31b; Yer. Git. iii, 45a, Mishnah and Gem.); of priestly descent and rich, he acquired great fame as a teacher of traditional law. Disciple of Akiba, but owing to the Hadrianic proscriptions of Jewish observances was not ordained by him. After Akiba’s death, Rabbi Judah ben Baba ordained him, together with others, among whom was Simon ben Jochai, at a secluded spot between Usha and Shefar’am. Ordainer was detected and brutally slain. The ordained escaped, and eventually became the custodians and disseminators of Jewish tradition (Sanh. 13b; ‘Ab Zarah 8b). Founded a College which attracted many pupils. Had an ineradicable influence on the development of the Talmud (Vide The Jewish Encyclopaedia).