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4. Idem.

5. New Britain, July 26, 1933.

6. The New Atlantis, no. 1, October 1933.

7. Notes of W. G. Fraser, 1946. New Atlantis Foundation archives.

8. M. Maeterlinck, The Buried Temple, London: Allen & Unwin, 1924, pp. 202-6.

9. New Britain, May 31, 1933.

10. Bosanska Vila, vol. 28, 1913, p. 224.

11. New Britain, May 24, 1933.

12. Mairet, 1981, op. cit., p. 157. Emphasis in the original.

13. Commemoration meeting, January 29, 1954. In The New Atlantis of October 1933 he wrote in an editorial “To face individual death with spirituality and positive joy is greatness and health for the individual, and the sooner, and the more deeply and entirely any individual digests and absorbs in victory the idea and the ideal experience of the Universality of Awareness and of the non-existence of the separate selfhood, the sooner and the more worth and true is their second birth and their infinite awakening.”

14. Weininger, op. cit., p. 107.

15. Ibid., p. 169.

16. Personal communication to author.

17. Commemoration meeting, January 29, 1954.

18. Quoted in M. Buber, Paths in Utopia, Boston: Beacon Press, 1958, p. 47.

19. Ibid., p. 46.

20. Ibid., p. 99.

21. As the French personalist Emmanuel Mourier wrote, “.. . there is always a risk of mystification in the affirmation of spiritual values alone, unaccompanied by any precise statement of means and conditions for acting upon them.” E. Mourier, Personalism, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952, p. 102.

22. M. Bakunin, The Political Philosophy of Bakunin, ed. G. P. Maximoff, New York: Free Press, 1953, p. 269.

23. See, for example, S. Rowbotham et al, Beyond the Fragments, London: Merlin Press, 1979.

24. E. P. Thompson, Beyond the Cold War, London: Merlin Press, 1982, p. 29.

25. Ibid., p. 31.

26. The New Age, Sept. 2, 1920, p. 268.

27. J. Lovelock and S. Epton, “The quest for Gaia,’ New Scientist, vol. 65, no. 935, 1975, p. 304.

28. T. Roszack, Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society, London: Victor Gollancz, 1979, p. 55.

29. Idem. Emphasis in original.

30. In 1921 Mitrinovic had written, “The purpose of the earth and of Man is one... The Earth is the body and the cosmic instrument of the species of man.” The New Age, July 7, 1921.

31. The New Age, August 26, 1920, p. 255.