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HENRY CALDERWOOD (1830-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 987 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:CALDERWOOD (1830-1897)  , Scottish philosopher and divine, was See also:born at See also:Peebles on the loth of May 1830 . He was educated at the Royal High school, and later at the university of See also:Edinburgh . He studied for the See also:ministry of the See also:United Presbyterian See also:Church, and in 1856 was ordained pastor of the Greyfriars church, See also:Glasgow . He also examined in See also:mental See also:philosophy for the university of Glasgow from 1861 to 1864, and from 1866 conducted the moral philosophy classes at that university, until in 1868 he became See also:professor of moral philosophy at Edinburgh . He was made LL.D. of Glasgow in 1865 . He died on the 19th of See also:November 1897 . His first and most famous See also:work was The Philosophy of the See also:Infinite (1854), in which he attacked the statement of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Hamilton that we can have no knowledge of the Infinite . See also:Calder-See also:wood maintained that such knowledge, though imperfect, is real and ever-increasing; that Faith implies Knowledge . His moral philosophy is in See also:direct antagonism to Hegelian See also:doctrine, and endeavours to substantiate the doctrine of divine See also:sanction . Beside the data of experience, the mind has pure I springs, which yield 150,000 gallons daily . There are seven activity of its own whereby it apprehends the fundamental springs, six with a natural temperature of 126° F., the seventh being See also:cold . The See also:district is See also:rich in flowering heaths and ever-lasting See also:flowers .

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Caledon was given to the See also:town and district in See also:honour of the 2nd See also:earl of Caledon, See also:governor of the Cape 1807—1811 . (2) A See also:river of See also:South See also:Africa, tributary to the See also:Orange (q.v.), also named after See also:Lord Caledon .

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