Neville tells his audience that the Bible originally held eighty books, of which fourteen -- now collected as the Apocrypha, including the Epistle of James, from which he quotes a scene of shepherds a
between 1817 and 1942
(probable)
In 1820, William Blake printed a short work which Neville quotes as declaring that Man is all Imagination, and that the Divine Body of Man -- identified with Jesus -- is one body of which all are memb
Neville's companion claim in the same passage that Browning 'died 1849' is factually incorrect -- Robert Browning in fact died 12 December 1889.
Neville alludes, without naming his source, to the widely told story that vulcanization was discovered by accident -- something spilled on a hot stove revealing the process.
Based on Neville's descriptions of Abdullah as in his late eighties when they met (1929-1931), researchers estimate his birth year at roughly 1845-1848.
Edward Douglas Fawcett, the philosopher Neville quoted in several lectures, was born in Hove, Sussex.
Place: Hove, Sussex
Person: Edward Douglas Fawcett
Census records suggest Modeste Abda'llah Guillaume, identified as Neville's likely teacher Abdullah, was born around 1871 in Algiers, then French Algeria.
A 1978 'The Bajan' magazine profile of the Goddard family business records that Joseph Nathaniel Goddard -- Neville's father, later known in Bridgetown as 'Old Joe' -- was born in November 1874 at his
25 November 1875
(probable)
9 October 1880
(doubtful)
A robed, turbaned man named Abdallah, brought from Egypt by Lieutenant Commander Henry Gorringe, stood motionless atop the foundation stones during the Masonic cornerstone ceremony for Cleopatra�
German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann, whom Neville quoted in several lectures regarding a vision of William Blake, was born in 1884.
Person: Max Beckmann
Per her 1916 obituary, Edith May ('Miss May') Lanyon, Walter C. Lanyon's sister, was born September 22, 1884 at Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
between 1886 and 1893
(possible)
Neville retells the story of Thomas Edison declaring alternating ("indirect") current impossible, only for Nikola Tesla to have already proved it in his mind's eye and built a working model requiring
Paul Thatcher Flood was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Researchers speculate Abdullah may have arrived in the US before 1890, based on unconfirmed immigration candidates of similar name.
Place: United States
Person: Abdullah
between 1890 and 1967
(possible)
between 1890 and 1900
(possible)
Fawcett converted to Buddhism, taking the pansil (Five Precepts vow) while with Theosophist Henry Steel Olcott in Ceylon.
Place: Ceylon
Person: Edward Douglas Fawcett
A Bangor, Maine newspaper (clipping reproduced from The Boston Globe) reports 'Samuel Waltzkowitz', who represented himself to be an Egyptian Jew, sentenced to three months in jail for false pretenses
Fawcett published his first fantasy novel, Hartmann the Anarchist.
Person: Edward Douglas Fawcett
A syndicated clipping headed "Black Hebrews" describes a race of black Jews in Cochin on the Malabar coast, India, noted as physically indistinguishable from the native population (dismissing intermar
Marjorie Cameron MacLean (nee Noble), later a song collaborator with Abdullah, married mortician Daniel MacLean.
Person: Marjorie Cameron MacLean
Fawcett's adventure novel Swallowed by an Earthquake was published, drawing comparisons to Jules Verne.
Person: Edward Douglas Fawcett
Neville's father imagines owning the store
Description
Neville recounted that in 1894 and 1895, his father, tired from walking to work, used to comfort himself by playing a game of believing he owned C. F. Harrison & Company, a large department store on the main street, even though at the time he was about as far from actually owning it as could be imagined.
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Joseph Goddard imagines and later buys C. F. Harrison & Company
Description
Neville's father, born poor and white in Barbados, walked ten miles each way to a five-shillings-a-week job and consoled himself by imagining he owned the C. F. Harrison & Company department store; nearly fifty years later, in 1942, the elderly English owner offered it for sale to a local family and the Goddards bought it with a bank loan.
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Sources
- Source: Believe It In ¶5 (But he played this game and it helped him, it compensated him when he was beastly tired, walking home in the belief he owned C. F. Harrison & Company.)
18 February 1894
(doubtful)
The Sun profiled a German-Jewish advisor using the stage name "Prof.