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ABRAHAM TUCKER (1705-1774)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM See also:TUCKER (1705-1774)  , See also:English moralist, was See also:born in See also:London, of a See also:Somerset See also:family, on the 2nd of See also:September 1705, son of a wealthy See also:city See also:merchant . His parents dying during his See also:infancy, he was brought up by his See also:uncle, See also:Sir See also:Isaac Tillard . In 1721 he entered Merton See also:College, See also:Oxford, as a See also:gentle;nan commoner, and studied See also:philosophy, See also:mathematics, See also:French, See also:Italian and See also:music . He afterwards studied See also:law at the Inner See also:Temple, but was never called to the See also:bar . In 1727 he bought Betchworth See also:Castle, near See also:Dorking, where he passed the See also:remainder of his See also:life, He took no See also:part in politics, and wrote a pamphlet, " The See also:Country See also:Gentleman's See also:Advice to his Son on the Subject of Party Clubs " (1755), cautioning See also:young men against its snares . In 1736 See also:Tucker married Dorothy, the daughter of See also:Edward See also:Barker of See also:East Betchworth, cursitor See also:baron of the See also:exchequer . On her See also:death in 1754, he occupied himself in See also:collecting together all the letters that had passed between them, which, we are told, he transcribed twice over under the See also:title of " The Picture of Artless Love." From this See also:time onward he occupied himself with the See also:composition of his See also:chief See also:work, The See also:Light of Nature Pursued, of which in 1763 he published a specimen under the title of " See also:Free Will." The strictures of a critic in the Monthly See also:Review of See also:July 1763 See also:drew from him a pamphlet called See also:Man in Quest of Himself, by See also:Cuthbert Comment (reprinted in See also:Parr's Metaphysical Tracts, 1837), " a See also:defence of the individuality of the human mind or self." In 1765 the first four volumes of his work were published under the See also:pseudonym " Edward See also:Search." The remaining three volumes appeared posthumously . His eyesight failed him completely in 1771, but he contrived an ingenious apparatus which enabled him to write so legibly that the result could easily be transcribed by his daughter . In this way he completed the later volumes, which were ready for publication when he died on the loth of See also:November 1774 . His work embraces in its See also:scope many psychological and more strictly metaphysical discussions, but it is chiefly in connexion with See also:ethics that Tucker's speculations are remembered . In some impor-tant points he anticipates the See also:utilitarianism afterwards systematized by See also:Paley, who expresses in the amplest terms his obligations to his predecessor . " Every man's own See also:satisfaction " Tucker holds to be the ultimate end of See also:action; and satisfaction or See also:pleasure is one and the same in See also:kind, however much it may vary in degree .

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motive is further connected, as by Paley, through the will of See also:God, with the " See also:general See also:good, the See also:root where out all our rules of conduct and sentiments of See also:honour are to See also:branch." The Light of Nature was republished with a See also:biographical See also:sketch by Tucker's See also:grandson, Sir H . P . St See also:John Mildmay (1905), 7 vols . (other See also:editions 1834, 1836, &c.), and an abridged edition by W . See also:Hazlitt appeared in 1807 . See See also:James See also:Mackintosh, Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (See also:Edinburgh, 1832) ; and specially Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen, English Thought in the z8th See also:Century, iii . 119-130.' TUCKER, See also:CHARLOTTE MARIA (1821-1893), English author, who wrote under the pseudonym "A.L.O.E." (a See also:Lady of See also:England), was born near See also:Barnet, See also:Middlesex, on the 8th of May 1821, the daughter of See also:Henry St See also:George Tucker (1771-1851), a distinguished See also:official of the East See also:India See also:Company . From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for See also:children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity . In 1875 she See also:left England for India to engage in missionary work, and died at See also:Amritsar on the 2nd of See also:December 1893 .

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