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Cole, G.D.H.

He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He subsequently started at Oxford University, his subjects including classical and modern literature, and he gained a good degree. He got a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Durham 1913-14, but then returned to London where he did research for an organisation o...

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Portrait image of Algernon Blackwood Photo: Hulton Deutsch/Corbis Historical via Getty Images (1949)

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Blackwood, Algernon

The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in...

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