CHARLES CARROLL EVERETT (1829-1900)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V10,
Page 8
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
CHARLES CARROLL 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
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Subsequently he took a degree in divinity at the Harvard Divinity School
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From 1859 to 1869 he was pastor of the Independent Congregational (Unitarian) See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church at Bangor, Maine
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This charge he resigned to take the Hussey professorship of theology at Harvard University, and, in 1878, became dean of the faculty of theology
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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)
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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)
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He died at Cambridge on the 16th of October 1900
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