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BOWEN, FRANCIS (1811—1890)

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BOWEN, See also:FRANCIS (1811—1890) , See also:American philosophical writer and educationalist, was See also:born in See also:Charlestown, See also:Massachusetts, on the 8th of See also:September 1811. He graduated at Harvard in 1833, taught for two years at See also:Phillips See also:Exeter See also:Academy, and then from 1835 to 1839 was a See also:tutor and instructor at Harvard. After several years of study in See also:Europe, he settled in See also:Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was editor and proprietor of the See also:North American See also:Review from 1843 to 1854. In 185o he was appointed See also:professor of See also:history at Harvard; but his See also:appointment was disapproved by the See also:board of overseers on See also:account of reactionary See also:political opinions he had expressed in a controversy with See also:Robert See also:Carter (1819—1879) concerning the Hungarian revolution. In 1853 his appointment as See also:Alford professor of natural See also:religion, moral See also:philosophy and See also:civil polity was approved, and he occupied the See also:chair until 1889. In 1876 he was a member of the Federal See also:commission appointed to consider currency reform, and wrote (1877) the minority See also:report, in which he opposed the restoration of the See also:double See also:standard and the re-monetization of See also:silver. He died in See also:Boston, Massachusetts, on the 22nd of See also:January 189o. His writings include lives of See also:Sir See also:William Phipps, See also:Baron von See also:Steuben, See also:James See also:Otis and See also:Benjamin See also:Lincoln in Jared See also:Sparks' " Library of American See also:Biography "; See also:Critical Essays on the History and See also:Present See also:Condition of Speculative Philosophy (1842); See also:Lowell Lectures on the Application of See also:Meta-See also:physical and Ethical See also:Science to the Evidences of Religion (1849) ; The Principles of Political See also:Economy applied to the Condition, Resources and Institutions of the American See also:People (1856) ;. A See also:Treatise on See also:Logic (1864); American Political Economy (187o); See also:Modern Philosophy from See also:Descartes to See also:Schopenhauer and See also:Hartmann (1877); and Gleanings from a See also:Literary See also:Life, x838—188o (188o).

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