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HENRY SIDGWICK (1838-1900)

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HENRY See also:SIDGWICK (1838-1900)  , See also:English philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Skipton in See also:Yorkshire, where his See also:father, the Rev . W . See also:Sidgwick (d . 1841), was headmaster of the See also:grammar-school, on the 31st of May 1838 . He was educated at See also:Rugby (where his See also:cousin, subsequently his See also:brother-in-See also:law, E . W . See also:Benson—afterwards See also:archbishop—was a See also:master), and at Trinity, See also:Cambridge, where his career was a brilliant one . In 1859 he was See also:senior classic, 33rd wrangler, See also:chancellor's medallist and See also:Craven See also:scholar . In the same See also:year he was elected to a fellowship at Trinity, and soon afterwards appointed to a classical lectureship there . This See also:post he held for ten years, but in 1869 exchanged his lectureship for one in moral See also:philosophy, a subject to which he had been turning his See also:attention more and more . In the same year, finding that he could no longer declare himself a member of the See also:Church of See also:England, he resigned his fellowship . He retained his lectureship, and in 1881 was elected an honorary See also:fellow .

In 1874 he published his Method of See also:

Ethics (6th ed . 1901, containing emendations written just before his See also:death), which first won him a reputation outside his university . In 1875 he was appointed praelector on moral and See also:political philosophy at Trinity, in 1883 he was elected See also:Knight-See also:bridge See also:professor of moral philosophy, and in 1885, the religious test having been removed, his See also:college once more elected him to a fellowship on the See also:foundation . Besides his lecturing and See also:literary labours, Sidgwick took an active See also:part in the business of the university, and in many forms of social and philanthropic See also:work . He was a member of the See also:General See also:Board of Studies from its foundation in 1882 till 1899; he was also a member of the See also:Council of the See also:Senate of the See also:Indian See also:Civil Service Board and the See also:Local See also:Examinations and Lectures See also:Syndicate, and chairman of the See also:Special Board for Moral See also:Science . He was one of the founders and first See also:president of the Society for Psychical See also:Research, and was a member of the Metaphysical Society . None of his work is more closely identified with his name than the part he took in promoting the higher See also:education of See also:women . He helped to start the higher local examinations for women, and the lectures held at Cambridge in preparation for these . It was at his See also:suggestion and with his help that See also:Miss See also:Clough opened a See also:house of See also:residence for students; and when this had See also:developed into Newnham College, and in 188o the See also:North See also:Hall was added, Mr Sidgwick, who had in 1876 married Eleanor Mildred See also:Balfour (See also:sister of A . J . Balfour), went with his wife to live there for two years . After Miss Clough's death in 1892 Mrs Sidgwick became See also:principal of the college, and she and her See also:husband resided there for the See also:rest of his See also:life .

During this whole See also:

period Sidgwick took the deepest See also:interest in the welfare of the college . In politics he was a Liberal, andbecame a Liberal Unionist in 1886 . See also:Early in 1900 he was forced by See also:ill-See also:health to resign his professorship, and he died on the 28th of See also:August of the same year . Though in many ways an excellent teacher he was primarily a student, and treated his pupils as fellow-learners . He was deeply interested in psychical phenomena, but his energies were primarily devoted to the study of See also:religion and philosophy . Brought up in the Church of England, he gradually drifted from orthodox See also:Christianity, and as early as 1862 he described himself as a theist . For the rest of his life, though he regarded Christianity as " indispensable and irreplaceable—looking at it from a sociological point of view," he found himself unable to return to it as a religion . In political See also:economy he was a Utilitarian on the lines of See also:Mill and See also:Bentham; his work was the careful investigation of first principles and the investigation of ambiguities rather than constructive . In philosophy he devoted himself to ethics, and especially to the 'examination of the ultimate . intuitive principles of conduct and the problem of See also:free will . He gave up the psychological See also:hedonism of Mill, and adopted instead a position which may be described as ethical hedonism, according to which the criterion of goodness in any given See also:action is that it produces the greatest possible amount of See also:pleasure . This hedonism, however, is not confined to the self (egoistic), but involves a due regard to the pleasure of others, and is, therefore, distinguished further as universalistic . Lastly, Sidgwick returns to the principle that no See also:man should See also:act so as to destroy his own happiness, and leaves us with a somewhat unsatisfactory See also:dualism .

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His See also:

chief See also:works are Principles of Political Economy (1883, 3rd ed. s9o1); See also:Scope and Method of Economic Science (1885) ; Outlines of the See also:History of Ethics (1886, 5th ed . 1902), enlarged from his See also:article ETHICS in the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica; Elements of Politics (1891, 2nd ed . 1897), an See also:attempt to See also:supply an adequate See also:treatise on the subject starting from the old lines of Bentham and Mill . The following were published posthumously: Philosophy; its Scope and Relations (5902) ; Lectures on the Ethics of T . H . See also:Green, Mr See also:Herbert See also:Spencer and J . See also:Martineau (1902); The Development of See also:European Polity (t9o3) ; See also:Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses (1904); Lectures on the Philosophy of See also:Kant (1905) . His younger brother, See also:ARTHUR SIDGWICK, had a brilliant school and university career, being second classic at Cambridge in 1863 and becoming fellow of Trinity; but he devoted himself thence-forth mainly to work as a teacher . After being for many years a master at Rugby, he became in 1882 fellow and See also:tutor of Corpus, See also:Oxford; and from 1894 to 1906 was Reader in See also:Greek in the university . He published a number of admirable classical school-books, including Greek See also:Prose (1876) and Greek See also:Verse (1882), and texts (See also:Virgil, 189o; See also:Aeschylus, 1880-1903), and was well known as a consummate classical scholar, remarkable for literary See also:taste and general culture . In the college life of Corpus he took the deepest interest and had the most stimulating See also:influence; and he also played an active part in social and political movements from an advanced Liberal point of view . A Memoir of See also:Henry Sidgwick, written by his brother with the collaboration of his widow, was published in 1906 .

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BEL-ABBES, chief See also:town of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Oran, See also:Algeria, 48 m. by See also:rail S. of Oran, 1552 ft above the See also:sea, on the right See also:bank of the Mekerra . Pop . (woe) of the town, 24,494 (of whom three-fourths are See also:French or Spaniards) ; of the See also:commune, 29,088; of the arrondissement, which includes 17 communes, 98,309 . The town, which occupies an important strategic position in the See also:plain dominated by the escarpments of See also:Mount Tessala, has barrack See also:accommodation for 6000 troops, and is the headquarters of the ter See also:regiment etranger, one of the two regiments known as the See also:Foreign See also:Legion . It is encircled by a crenellated and bastioned See also:wall with a See also:fosse, and has four See also:gates, named after Oran, Daia, See also:Mascara and See also:Tlemcen respectively . Starting from the gates, two broad streets, shaded by See also:plane trees, See also:traverse the town See also:east to See also:west and north to See also:south, the latter dividing the civil from the military quarters . There are numerous fountains fed by the Mekerra . Sidi-bel-Abbes is also an important agricultural centre, See also:wheat, See also:tobacco and See also:alias being the chief articles of See also:trade . There are numerous vineyards and See also:olive- groves in the vicinity . The town, founded by the French, derives its name from the kubba (See also:tomb) of a See also:marabout named Sidi-bel-Abbes, near which a See also:redoubt was constructed by General Bedeau in 1843 . The site of the town, formerly a swamp, has been thoroughly drained . The surrounding See also:country is healthy, fertile and populous .

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