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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|(New)-York against Lankester|1-180}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|(New)-York against Lankester|1-180}} | ||
the past serves neither as an example nor a warning. The overturning of a thousand cherished theories finds our modern philosopher as unprepared for each new scientific revelation as though his predecessors had been infallible from time immemorial. | {{Style P-No indent|the past serves neither as an example nor a warning. The overturning of a thousand cherished theories finds our modern philosopher as unprepared for each new scientific revelation as though his predecessors had been infallible from time immemorial.}} | ||
The protoplasmist should at least, in modesty, remember that his past is one vast cemetery of dead theories; a desolate Potter’s Field wherein exploded hypotheses lie in ignoble oblivion like so many executed malefactors, whose names cannot be pronounced by the next of kin without a blush. | The protoplasmist should at least, in modesty, remember that his past is one vast cemetery of dead theories; a desolate Potter’s Field wherein exploded hypotheses lie in ignoble oblivion like so many executed malefactors, whose names cannot be pronounced by the next of kin without a blush. | ||
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{{Style P-Signature in capitals|H. P. Blavatsky,}} | {{Style P-Signature in capitals|H. P. Blavatsky,}} | ||
{{Style P-Align right|''Corresponding Secretary of the Theosophical Society.''}} | {{Style P-Align right|''Corresponding Secretary of the Theosophical Society.''}} | ||
{{Style P-Align right|''New York, Oct. 8th,'' 1876.}} | {{Style P-Align right|''New York, Oct. 8th,'' 1876.}} | ||
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