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See also:WRIGHT, See also:CHAUNCEY (1830-1875) , See also:American. philosopher and mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Northampton, See also:Mass., on the loth of See also:September 1830, and died at See also:Cambridge, Mass., on the 12th of September 1875. In 1852 he graduated at Harvard, and became computer to the American See also:Ephemeris and Nautical See also:Almanac. He made his name by contributions on mathematical and See also:physical subjects in the Mathematical' Monthly. He soon, however, turned his See also:attention to See also:metaphysics and See also:psychology, and for the See also:North American See also:Review and later for the See also:National he wrote philosophical essays on the lines of See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, See also:Darwin and See also:Spencer. In 1870–71 he lectured on psychology at Harvard. Although, in See also:general, he adhered to the See also:evolution theory, he was a See also:free See also:lance in thought. Among his essays may be mentioned The Evolution of Self-Consciousness and two articles published in 1871 on the See also:Genesis of See also:Species. Of these, the former endeavours to explain the most elaborate psychical activities of men as developments of elementary forms of conscious processes in the See also:animal See also:kingdom as a whole; the latter is a See also:defence of the theory of natural selection against the attacks of St See also:George See also:Mivart, and appeared in an See also:English edition on the See also:suggestion of Darwin. From 1863 to 1870 he was secretary and See also:recorder to the American See also:Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in the last See also:year of his See also:life he lectured on mathematical physics at Harvard.
His essays were collected and published by C. E. See also:Norton in 1877, and his Letters were edited and privately printed at Cambridge, Mass., in 1878 by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Bradley See also:Thayer.
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