. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Henry Thomas Buckle, Bismarck and M. F. fcN KNGLISII writer of liberallirinciples w!is Henry Thomasr>iickle, who was born inI\L-nt
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Henry Thomas Buckle, Bismarck and M. F. fcN KNGLISII writer of liberallirinciples w!is Henry Thomasr>iickle, who was born inI\L-nt, England, in 1821. Heilevotcd himself to study,acquiring, meanwhile, greatproficiency as a chess-er. His fame rests upon iinlished work, *History of Civil-on in England, two volumes ofpublished in 1857 and 18G1, butI not live to finish. His theory,wbiili caur-ed iiuich discussion, endeavored to show that thecharacter of a people was chiefly dependent on material circum-stances, such as soil, climate, scenery and food, and that ideas onmorals or religion had very littleinfluence on civilization, u progressin which, he maintained, dependedchiefly on the growth and accumulationof scientific or positive 18G1 he visited the continent ofEurope, remaining abroad until thefollowing March, when he died of afever, while traveling in the * HolyLand. conferred upon him by the diet. The annexation of several neigh-boring principalities, the confederation of othern, and the establish-ment of t
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