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ELME MARIE CARO (1826-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE See also:CARO (1826-1887)  , See also:French philosopher, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:March 1826 at See also:Poitiers . His See also:father, a See also:professor of See also:philosophy, gave him an excellent See also:education at the Stanislas See also:College and the Ecole Normale, where he graduated in 1848 . After being professor of philosophy at several provincial See also:universities, he received the degree of See also:doctor, and came to See also:Paris in x858 as See also:master of conferences at the Icole Normale . In 1861 he became inspector of the See also:Academy of Paris, in 1864 professor of philosophy to the See also:Faculty of Letters, and in 1874 a member of the French Academy . He married Pauline Cassin, the authoress of the Peche de Madeleine and other well-known novels . He died in Paris on the 13th of See also:July 1887 . In his philosophy he was mainly concerned to defend See also:Christianity against See also:modern See also:Positivism . The philosophy of See also:Cousin influenced him strongly, but his strength See also:lay in exposition and See also:criticism rather than in See also:original thought . Besides important contributions to La See also:France and the Revue See also:des deux mondes, he wrote Le Mysticisme au X V III' siecle (1852-1854), L'Idee de Dieu( 1864), LeMaterialisme et la See also:science (1868), Le Pessimisme au XIX° siecle (1878), Jours d'epreuaes (1872), M . See also:Littre et le positivisme (1883), See also:George See also:Sand (1887), Melanges et portraits (1888), La Philosophie de See also:Goethe (2nd ed., 188o) .

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