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Quotes from The Ancient Wisdom — Annie Besant

1847–1933 England

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Cremation is preferable to burial as a way of disposing of corpses.

The Ancient Wisdom (1897)

Let a soul radiate in every direction love and compassion, and thoughts of hatred can find nothing to which they can attach themselves. p. 273

The Ancient Wisdom (1897)

If it be admitted that the soul of the savage is destined to live and evolve, and that he is not doomed for eternity to his present infant state, but that his evolution will take place after death and in other worlds, then the principle of soul-evolution is conceded, and the question of the place of evolution alone remains.

The Ancient Wisdom (1897)

Modern science is proving more and more clearly that heredity plays an ever-decreasing part in the evolution of the higher creatures, that mental and moral qualities are not transmitted from parents to offspring, and that the higher qualities the more patent is this fact ‘ the child of the genius is oft-times a dolt; commonplace parents give birth to a genius.

The Ancient Wisdom (1897)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Annie Besant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.