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ROBERT FLINT (1838- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:FLINT (1838- )  , Scottish divine and philosopher, was See also:born near See also:Dumfries and educated: at the university of See also:Glasgow . After a few years of See also:pastoral service, first in See also:Aberdeen and then at Kilconquhar, See also:Fife, he was appointed See also:professor of moral See also:philosophy and See also:political See also:economy at St See also:Andrews in 1864 . From 1876 to 1903 he was professor of divinity at See also:Edinburgh . Ile contributed a number of articles to, the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica . His See also:chief See also:works are See also:Christ's See also:Kingdom upon See also:Earth (Sermons, 1865); Philosophy of See also:History in See also:Europe (1874; partly rewritten with reference to See also:France and See also:Switzerland, 1844); See also:Theism and See also:Anti-theistic Theories (2 vols., being the See also:Baird Lectures for . 1876-1877; often reprinted); See also:Socialism (1894); Sermons and Addresses (1899); See also:Agnosticism (1903) .

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