CHARLES

See also:

• CARROLL, CHARLES (1737-1832)
• CARROLL, JOHN (1735-1815)

CARROLL

See also:

• EVERETT
• EVERETT, ALEXANDER HILL (1790-1847)
• CHARLES CARROLL EVERETT (1829-1900)
• EVERETT, EDWARD (1794–1865)

EVERETT (1829-1900)  , American divine and philosopher, was born on the 19th of June 1829, at Brunswick, Maine . He studied at Bowdoin 'College, where he graduated in 185o, after which he proceeded to Berlin . Subsequently he took a degree in divinity at the Harvard Divinity School . From 1859 to 1869 he was pastor of the Independent Congregational (Unitarian) church at Bangor, Maine . This charge he resigned to take the Hussey professorship of theology at Harvard University, and, in 1878, became dean of the faculty of theology . Interested in a variety of subjects, he devoted himself chiefly to the philosophy of religion, and published The Science of Thought (Boston, 1869; revised 1891) . He also wrote Fichte's Science of Knowledge (1884) ; Poetry, Comedy and Duty (r888); Religions before Christianity (1883); Ethics for Young People (1891); The Gospel of Paul (1892) . He died at Cambridge on the 16th of October 1900 .