The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . urer on philosophy (1869-71),instructor in history (1870-71), librarian (1872-79), andmember of the Board of Over-seers since 1879. He has alsofilled a non-resident pro
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . urer on philosophy (1869-71),instructor in history (1870-71), librarian (1872-79), andmember of the Board of Over-seers since 1879. He has alsofilled a non-resident professorshipof American history at Washingtonuniversity, St. Louis, since a public lecturer, he has achiev-ed great popularity in this countryand in Great Britain. His first im-portant book, Myths and Myth-makers, was not published until1872, but for more than ten yearsprevious he had been attracting at-tention by his contributions to thepapers, magazines and reviews. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy appeared in-London subsequent books are: TheIdea of God; The Destiny of Man; AmericanPolitical Ideas; The Critical Period of AmericanHistory; The Beginnings of New England, andthree volumes of essays. Perhaps the most salientquality of his genius is its versatility. He seems to beequally at home in treating of language, art, music, re-ligion, natural science, modern literature, the classics,. history or philosophy, but it is in the two last-namedfields that he has chosen to do the bulk of his mostserious work. In philosophy he has ably expoundedthe system of Herbert Spencer, supplementing it byopening up new vistas into a reverent theism. Itis as a disciple and expounder of Spencer, says Ed-win D. Mead, that Mr. Fiske has been chieflythought of in most circles, perhaps, for many prominence in this capacity has, to some extent,been a hindrance to his deserved reputation of sin-gular original power. It is not too much to say thathe shows an insight and
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