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  • Helena Blavatsky Critique of the French Revolution of 1789, Material Progress and the Rich

    Helena Blavatsky Critique of the French Revolution of 1789, Material Progress and the Rich

    In an excerpt from this Parisian paper, Le Lotus (Paris, Vol. I, No. 6, Sep 1887), Helena P. Blavatsky speaks about the falsity of fraternity in the French Revolution of 1789, rails against material (industrial) developments, and the conditions of the poor. The poor and child factory workers labor and are sacrificed for progress. Theosophists…