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HICKOK, LAURENS PERSEUS (1798-1888)

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HICKOK, See also:LAURENS See also:PERSEUS (1798-1888) , See also:American philosopher and divine, was See also:born at See also:Bethel, See also:Connecticut, on the 29th of See also:December 1798. He took his degree at See also:Union See also:College in 1820. Until 1836 he was occupied in active See also:pastoral See also:work, and was then appointed See also:professor of See also:theology at the Western Reserve College, See also:Ohio, and later (1844-1852) at the See also:Auburn (N.Y.) Theo-logical See also:Seminary. From this See also:post he was elected See also:vice-See also:president of Union College and professor of See also:mental and moral See also:science. In r866 he succeeded Dr E. See also:Nott as president, but in See also:July 1868 retired to See also:Amherst, See also:Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to See also:writing and study. A collected edition of his See also:principal See also:works was published at See also:Boston in 1875. He died at Amherst on the 7th of May 1888. He wrote Rational See also:Psychology (1848), See also:System of Moral Science (1853), Empirical Psychology (1854), Rational Cosmology (1858), Creator and Creation, or the Knowledge in the See also:Reason of See also:God and His Work (1872), Humanity Immortal (1872), See also:Logic of Reason (1874).

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