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Cables carried the news from Madras. The Theosophical Society had opened the celebration of its 50th anniversary. To greet the aged President Annie Besant was a sufficiently grand collection of 5,000 delegates of 37 nationalities. But there were no further details concerning the "reincarnation of Christ in the person of J. Krishnamurti...
...Krishnamurti is an old story. He has titillated sewing circles periodically since 1908, when sweet Mrs. Besant carried him from India off to her English home. He was 12 years old, reminiscent to Mrs. Besant of a Boy who talked to doctors in the Temple. He had written a book, At the Feet of the Master, and Mrs. Besant, just turned 60, was young to theosophy...
Mahatma Gandhi, referring to a Dominion Home Rule Bill taken to India by the famed theosophist, Dr. Annie Besant, asseverated...
...following the trial and acquittal of one Annie Besant and one Charles Bradlaugh for distributing birth control literature, a Neo-Malthusian League was formed in London. A quarter of a century later, the first Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference was held in Paris, repeated at Liege, in 1901; The Hague, 1910; Dresden, 1911; London...
...their children. The birthrate of the United States, now about 22 per thousand population, as well as of all the more advanced countries, has declined steadily in the past half century since the agitation for birth control (starting in England with Robert Owen, Francis Place and the famous Bradlaugh-Besant trial) became widespread. It is well known that many physicians give information to their private patients. But the lower classes, economically and mentally, have been shut off from such sources. It is these classes, including the majority of immigrants, which have the largest families and contribute the largest share...