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THOMAS JEFFERSON CONANT (1802-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 823 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:JEFFERSON See also:CONANT (1802-1891)  , See also:American Biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Brandon, See also:Vermont, on the 13th of See also:December 1802 . Graduating at See also:Middlebury See also:College in 1823, he became See also:tutor in the Columbian University (now See also:George See also:man . " See also:Superior in See also:power of See also:affection, more able to keep both the intellectual and the active See also:powers in continual subordination to feeling, See also:women are formed as the natural intermediaries between Humanity and man . The See also:Great Being confides specially to them its moral See also:Providence, maintaining through them the See also:direct and See also:constant cultivation of universal affection, in the midst of all the distractions of thought or See also:action, which are for ever withdrawing men from its See also:influence . . . . Beside the See also:uniform influence of every woman on every man, to attach him to Humanity, such is the importance and the difficulty of this See also:ministry that each of us should be placed under the See also:special guidance of one of these angels, to See also:answer for him, as it were, to the Great Being . This moral guardianship may assume three types, the See also:mother, the wife and the daughter; each having several modifications, as shown in the concluding See also:volume . Together they See also:form the three See also:simple modes of .solidarity, or unity with contemporaries,—obedience, See also:union and See also:protection—as well as the three degrees of continuity between ages, by uniting us with the past, the See also:present and the future . In accordance with my theory of the See also:brain, each corresponds with one of our three altruistic instincts—veneration, See also:attachment and benevolence." How the See also:positive method of observation and verification of real facts has landed us in this, and much else of the same See also:kind, is extremely hard to guess . Seriously to examine See also:Washington University) from 1825 to 1827, See also:professor of See also:Greek, Latin and See also:German at See also:Waterville College (now See also:Colby College) from 1827 to 1833, professor of biblical literature and See also:criticism in See also:Hamilton (New See also:York) Theological See also:Institute from 1835 to 1851, and professor of See also:Hebrew and of Biblical exegesis in See also:Rochester Theological See also:Seminary from 1851 to 1857 . From 1857 to 1875 he was employed by the American See also:Bible Union on the revision of the New Testament (1871) . He married in .

183o Hannah O'Brien See also:

Chaplin (18o9-1865), who was herself the author of The See also:Earnest Man, a See also:biography of Adoniram See also:Judson (1855), and of The See also:History of the See also:English Bible (1859), besides being her See also:husband's able assistant in his Hebrew studies . He died in See also:Brooklyn, New York, on the 3oth of See also:April 1891 . See also:Conant was the foremost Hebrew scholar of his See also:time in See also:America . His See also:treatise, The Meaning and Use of ` Baptizein " Philologically and Historically Investigated (1860), an " appendix to the revised version of the See also:Gospel by See also:Matthew," is a valuable See also:summary of the See also:evidence for Baptist See also:doctrine . He translated and edited Gesenius's Hebrew See also:Grammar (1839; 1877) 1 and published revised versions with notes of See also:Job (1856), See also:Genesis (1868), See also:Psalms (1871), See also:Proverbs (1872), See also:Isaiah i.–xiii . 22 (1874), and See also:Historical Books of the Old Testament, See also:Joshua to II . See also:Kings (1884) .

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