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John Ernst Worrell Keely of the Keely Motor Company died one year and a half after the publication of The Secret Doctrine. At the time of writing of the book, he had already faced a massive corporate failure, because his inventions proved impossible to put into the hands of anybody else than himself, it is said, as explained in The Secret Doctrine.
Because of this situation, Keely was, during his lifetime, and still is today, considered the greatest fraudulent inventor of his century. After his death a close friend revealed that he had once asked Keely what he wanted for an epitaph, and Keely had replied, "Keely, the greatest humbug of the nineteenth century".
His discoveries, had they been successfully constructed for anybody to use, would prove a disaster to mankind because they would be put to evil use as much or more than to good uses. This is why we must be grateful for their failures. It will probably not be until after the present kali yuga -- a very long time indeed! -- before the Keely motor principles will work for humanity, operated by humans.
What we got instead, in the meantime, was nuclear fission and instable fusion; the former being able to provide us with usable energy; both technologies unfortunately being used to kill whole city populations. And such effects would be manifold worsened in our violent inhumane world had we had access to the "Keely power".