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TUCKER, ABRAHAM (1705-1774)

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TUCKER, See also:ABRAHAM (1705-1774) , See also:English moralist, was See also:born in See also:London, of a See also:Somerset See also:family, on the 2nd of See also:September 1705, son of a wealthy See also:city See also:merchant. His parents dying during his See also:infancy, he was brought up by his See also:uncle, See also:Sir See also:Isaac Tillard. In 1721 he entered Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, as a See also:gentle;nan commoner, and studied See also:philosophy, See also:mathematics, See also:French, See also:Italian and See also:music. He afterwards studied See also:law at the Inner See also:Temple, but was never called to the See also:bar. In 1727 he bought Betchworth See also:Castle, near See also:Dorking, where he passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life, He took no See also:part in politics, and wrote a pamphlet, " The See also:Country See also:Gentleman's See also:Advice to his Son on the Subject of Party Clubs " (1755), cautioning See also:young men against its snares. In 1736 Tucker married Dorothy, the daughter of See also:Edward See also:Barker of See also:East Betchworth, cursitor See also:baron of the See also:exchequer. On her See also:death in 1754, he occupied himself in See also:collecting together all the letters that had passed between them, which, we are told, he transcribed twice over under the See also:title of " The Picture of Artless Love." From this See also:time onward he occupied himself with the See also:composition of his See also:chief See also:work, The See also:Light of Nature Pursued, of which in 1763 he published a specimen under the title of " See also:Free Will." The strictures of a critic in the Monthly See also:Review of See also:July 1763 See also:drew from him a pamphlet called See also:Man in Quest of Himself, by See also:Cuthbert Comment (reprinted in See also:Parr's Metaphysical Tracts, 1837), " a See also:defence of the individuality of the human mind or self." In 1765 the first four volumes of his work were published under the See also:pseudonym " Edward See also:Search." The remaining three volumes appeared posthumously. His eyesight failed him completely in 1771, but he contrived an ingenious apparatus which enabled him to write so legibly that the result could easily be transcribed by his daughter. In this way he completed the later volumes, which were ready for publication when he died on the loth of See also:November 1774. His work embraces in its See also:scope many psychological and more strictly metaphysical discussions, but it is chiefly in connexion with See also:ethics that Tucker's speculations are remembered. In some impor-tant points he anticipates the See also:utilitarianism afterwards systematized by See also:Paley, who expresses in the amplest terms his obligations to his predecessor. " Every man's own See also:satisfaction " Tucker holds to be the ultimate end of See also:action; and satisfaction or See also:pleasure is one and the same in See also:kind, however much it may vary in degree.

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motive is further connected, as by Paley, through the will of See also:God, with the " See also:general See also:good, the See also:root where out all our rules of conduct and sentiments of See also:honour are to See also:branch." The Light of Nature was republished with a See also:biographical See also:sketch by Tucker's See also:grandson, Sir H. P. St See also:John Mildmay (1905), 7 vols. (other See also:editions 1834, 1836, &c.), and an abridged edition by W. See also:Hazlitt appeared in 1807. See See also:James See also:Mackintosh, Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (See also:Edinburgh, 1832) ; and specially Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen, English Thought in the z8th See also:Century, iii. 119-130.' TUCKER, See also:CHARLOTTE MARIA (1821-1893), English author, who wrote under the pseudonym "A.L.O.E." (a See also:Lady of See also:England), was born near See also:Barnet, See also:Middlesex, on the 8th of May 1821, the daughter of See also:Henry St See also:George Tucker (1771-1851), a distinguished See also:official of the East See also:India See also:Company. From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for See also:children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she See also:left England for India to engage in missionary work, and died at See also:Amritsar on the 2nd of See also:December 1893.

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