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With regard to another point, Madame Blavatsky will be able to inform Mrs. Showers, in her own inimitable manner, that the learned Brahmins and Buddhists of India did not require a Sir William Jones or an Asiatic Society to teach them what precious treasures were in their own possession, treasures always jealously guarded from European eyes, and, moreover, that one of the deepest insults offered them by the British Government is the appointment of German professors to the chairs of Sanscrit in Hindu colleges.
I do not expect, in the above explanation, to convince any one of anything of which he or she does not wish to be convinced. But I hope I have shown that I have a fairer claim to a knowledge of Madame Blavatsky’s character, habits, modes of thought and life than those who, like Mrs. Showers, have, by their own showing, only partially perused her book, who have no personal acquaintance with her or any of her friends, and who have, I maintain, no right to cast upon me the slur of credulity without inquiring what opportunities I may have had of ascertaining the truth of “pretensions” which I grieve to see have excited the hasty “vituperation” of one, in other respects so accomplished as Mrs. Showers. And if anything had been wanting to confirm me in the wisdom of “esoteric’’ methods, it is the manner in which the present controversy on Theosophy has been conducted, persons having entered the lists under double disguises, with no other preparation than the perusal of one or two newspaper articles, and no other weapons than ill-pointed epithets. It has been well said by an ancient Jewish writer—“Herein is a mystery; and whoso understandeth it, let him hold his peace.”
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