See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

FREDERIC See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY See also:

• FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY MYERS (1843-1901)

MYERS (1843-1901)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet and essayist, son of See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

Frederic See also:

• MYERS, FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY (1843-1901)

Myers of See also:

• KESWICK

Keswick—author of Lectures on See also:

• GREAT

Great Men (1856) and See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic Thoughts (first collected 1873), a See also:

• BOOK

book marked by a most admirable See also:

• PROSE

prose See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style—was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Keswick, See also:

• CUMBERLAND
• CUMBERLAND, DUKES AND EARLS OF
• CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1632-1718)
• CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1732-1811)
• CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Cumberland, on the 6th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1843, and educated at See also:

• CHELTENHAM

Cheltenham and Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, where he won a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of honours and in 1865 was appointed classical lecturer . He had no love for teaching, which he soon discontinued, but he took up his permanent See also:

• ABODE (from " abide," to dwell, properly " to wait for ," to bide)

abode at Cambridge . in 1872, when he became a school inspector under the See also:

• EDUCATION

Education See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

Department . Meanwhile he published, in 1867, an unsuccessful See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay for the Seatonian See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize, a poem entitled St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul, which met at the hands of the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general public with a success that would be difficult to explain, for it lacks sincerity and represents views which the writer rapidly outgrew . It was followed by small volumes of collected verses in 1870 and 1882: both are marked by a flow of rhetorical ardour which culminates in a poem of real beauty, " The Renewal of Youth," in the 1882 collection . His best See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse is in heroic couplets . Myers is more likely to be remembered by his two volumes of Essays, Classical and See also:

• MODERN

Modern (1883) . The essay on See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil, by far the best thing he ever wrote, represents the matured See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm of a student and a See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple to whom the exquisite artificiality and refined culture of Virgil's method were profoundly congenial . Next to this in value is the carefully wrought essay on See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

Ancient See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Oracles (this had first appeared in Hellenica) . Scarcely less delicate in phrasing and See also:

• PERCEPTION (from Lat. percipere, to perceive)

perception, if less penetrating in insight, is the monograph on See also:

• WORDSWORTH, CHARLES (1806–1892)
• WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER (1774–1846)
• WORDSWORTH, CHRISTOPHER (1807–1885)
• WORDSWORTH, DOROTHY (1771-1855)
• WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM (1770-185o)

Wordsworth (1881) for the " English Men of Letters " See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series . In 1882, after several years of inquiry and discussion, Myers took the See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead among a small See also:

• BAND

band of explorers (including See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• SIDGWICK, HENRY (1838-1900)

Sidgwick and See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• HODGSON, BRIAN HOUGHTON (1800-1894)

Hodgson, See also:

• EDMUND
• EDMUND, or EADMUND (c. 980-1016)
• EDMUND, SAINT [EDMUND RICE] (d. 1240)

Edmund See also:

• GURNEY
• GURNEY, EDMUND (1847—1888)

Gurney and F . Podmore), who founded the society for Psychical See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

Research . He continued for many years to be the See also:

• MOUTHPIECE (Fr. embouchure; Ger. Mundstuck; Ital. bocchino)

mouthpiece of the society, a position for which his perfervidum. ingenium, still more his abnormal fluency and alertness, admirably fitted him .

He contributed greatly to the coherence of the society by steering a See also:

• MID

mid-course between extremes (the extreme sceptics on the one See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, and the enthusiastic spiritualists on the other), and by helping to sift and revise the cumbrous See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of Proceedings, the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• CONCRETE
• CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

concrete results being the two volumes of Phantasms of the Living (r886), to which he contributed the introduction . Like many theorists, he had. a See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty for ignoring hard facts, and in his anxiety to generalize plausibly upon the alleged data, and to See also:

• HAMMER, FRIEDRICH JULIUS (1810-1862)

hammer out striking formulae, his insight into the real See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence may have See also:

• LEFT

left something to be desired . His long series of papers on subliminal consciousness, the results of which were embodied in a See also:

• POSTHUMOUS

posthumous See also:

• WORK

work called Human See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

Personality and its Survival of Bodily See also:

• DEATH

Death (2 vols . 1903), constitute his own chief contribution to psychical theory . This, as he himself would have been the first to admit, was little more than provisional; but See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James has pointed out that the series of papers on subliminal consciousness is " the first See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to consider the phenomena of See also:

• HALLUCINATION (from Lat. alucinari or allucinari, to wander in mind, Gr. a.)^i resty or hXvecv, from an, wandering)

hallucination, See also:

• HYPNOTISM

hypnotism, See also:

• AUTOMATISM

automatism, See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double personality and mediumship, as connected parts of one whole subject." The last work published in his lifetime was a small collection of essays, See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science and a Future See also:

• LIFE

Life (1893) . He died at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome on the 17th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 19o1, but was buried in his native See also:

• SOIL

soil at Keswick .