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BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 888 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUTLER, See also:WILLIAM See also:ARCHER (1814-1848) , Irish historian of See also:philosophy, was See also:born at Annerville, near See also:Clonmel in See also:Ireland, probably in 1814. His See also:father was a See also:Protestant, his See also:mother a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and he was brought up as a Catholic. As a boy he was imaginative and poetical, and some of his See also:early verses were remarkable. While yet at Clonmel school he became a Protestant. Later he entered Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, where he had a brilliant career. He specially devoted himself to literature and See also:metaphysics, and was noted for the beauty of his See also:style. In 1834 he gained the ethical moderatorship, newly instituted by See also:Provost See also:Lloyd, and continued in See also:residence at college. In 1837 he decided to enter the See also:Church, and in the same See also:year he was elected to the professorship of moral philosophy, specially founded for him through Lloyd's exertions. About the same See also:time he was presented to the prebend of Clondahorky, See also:Donegal, and resided there when not called by his professorial duties to Dublin. In 1842 he was promoted to the rectory of Raymochy. He died on the 5th of See also:July 1848. His Sermons (2 vols., 1849) were remarkably brilliant and forceful.

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History of See also:Ancient Philosophy, edited by W. Hepworth See also:Thompson (2 vols., 1856; 2nd ed., 1 vol. 1875), take a high See also:place among the few See also:British See also:works on the history of philosophy. The See also:introductory lectures, and those on the early See also:Greek thinkers, though they See also:evidence wide See also:reading, do not show the See also:complete mastery that is found in See also:Schwegler or See also:Zeller; but the lectures on See also:Plato are of considerable value. Among his other writings were papers in the Dublin University See also:Magazine (1834–1837); and " Letters on Development " (in the Irish Ecclesiastical See also:Journal, 1845), a reply to See also:Newman's famous See also:Essay on the Development of See also:Christian See also:Doctrine. See Memoir of W. A. Butler, prefixed by Rev. J. See also:Woodward to first See also:series of Sermons.

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