Henry Steel Olcott

This is a mean and vile trait of human nature, the proof of ignorance, selfishness, brutal cowardice, and a superstitious materialism.

that there is an invariable tendency to deify whomsoever shows himself superior to the weakness of our common humanity

It shows the base instinct to put down and destroy whatever or whoever makes men feel their own imperfections

What have been retained in the present Canon may doubtless be regarded as the least objectionable.

have we not the right to conclude that the true history of the Founder of Christianity, if at this late date it were possible to write it, would be very different from the narratives that pass current?