The Theosophist Olcott Centenary Number August 1932

After two years the Secretary of the Navy begged for the loan of his services to crush out the abuses of the Navy Yards and he was made Special Commissioner of the Navy Department. [...] He has announced it in the papers ; he outrages the memory of the leader and is having a hand in the game of the Jesuits and the French priests vilifying your husband from the house-tops and promising to reveal against him more than was discovered at the public [judicial inquiry. [...] [SIGNATURE IN SCRIPT]"INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY COLONEL H. STEEL OLCOTT PRESIDENT OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY DELIVERED AT MOTT MEMORIAL HALL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK AT THE FIRST REGULAR MEETING OF THE SOCIETY NOVEMBER 17TH 1875 IN future times when the impartial historian shall write an 1 account of the progress of religious ideas in the present century the formation of this Theosophical Society [...] It has sounded in the ears of some of the leaders of the contending forces of theology and science like the distant blast of a trumpet to the struggling armies in a battle. [...] Such being the state of the case at the very onset of our movement before one blow has been struck am I not warranted in repeating the statement that in the coming time it is inevitable that the birth of this Society of ours must be considered as a factor in the problem which the historian will be required to solve ? The present small number of its members is not to be considered at all in judgi