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Excerpt from Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: Foundress of the Original Theosophical Society in New York, 1875, the International Headquarters of Which Are Now at Point Loma, California The great Individual has always counted as the moving force in history. It is in vain that philosophers try to represent the mass of humanity as elevating itself by its own gravitation, like so much dough generating its own leaven. The moving force has to come from without. That which moves the body is Spirit; and though Spirit can and does operate in every human heart that opens itself thereto, yet it operates eminently in certain Individuals who appear here and there, from time to time, and by their superior force, their loftier standing-ground, work more mightily among men than do the hosts of lesser souls in a hundred years. Faiths and philosophies serve man well, especially when he has nothing more tangible to resort to; but he ever goes by imitation and looks for the example: the visible living example of a great personality in uences us far more than any number of books and sayings. It shows us what man can be, what we may ourselves become. It sets to work the instinct of imitation. Our eyes are turned aloft, and our footsteps begin instinctively to turn in the same direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."