Henry Steel Olcott

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society. Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. Olcott is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhism through a Westernized lens.

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that there is an invariable tendency to deify whomsoever shows himself superior to the weakness of our common humanity
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It shows the base instinct to put down and destroy whatever or whoever makes men feel their own imperfections
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What have been retained in the present Canon may doubtless be regarded as the least objectionable.

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    The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons
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