The Plagiarism Charge

William Emmette Coleman, an American critic, announced that he had traced some two thousand passages in Blavatsky's books to about a hundred contemporary works — encyclopaedias, translations and popular compendia — used without acknowledgement.

⚠ And the app applies its own instrument here too, in both directions. Coleman was a committed hostile partisan, and the complete analysis he promised was never published; the tally circulates as a number without the working. At the same time, later scholars examining the material independently have found substantial unacknowledged borrowing. So: the charge is not proven in the form it is usually quoted, and it is not baseless either. State the claim, name its source, mark what is missing — the same rule this app uses on the traditions it loves.