ABSTRACT
The Russian occultist and founder of the Theosophical Society, Madame Helena Blavatsky was born in Russia of a German nobleman settled in Russia. Jeremy Bentham an English jurist and political philosopher, graduated from Oxford in 1766 and though called to the bar in 1772, did not practice. He studied the population problem in connection with his enquiry into the Poor Law question. An English journalist, freethinker, and birth control propagandist, Richard Carlile began as a chemist's boy and tinsmith's apprentice. Ambitious to earn a living as a writer, he hawked the radical paper Black Dwarf for awhile he was attracted to W. T. Sherwin and his Sherwin's Weekly Political Register. Marquis de Condorcet was a noted French philosopher, mathematician, and politician. He was a member of the French Legislative Assembly and later its president. He was a member of the National Convention and of the Girondists.
