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CHAUNCEY WRIGHT (1830-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAUNCEY See also:WRIGHT (1830-1875)  , See also:American. philosopher and mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Northampton, See also:Mass., on the loth of See also:September 1830, and died at See also:Cambridge, Mass., on the 12th of September 1875 . In 1852 he graduated at Harvard, and became computer to the American See also:Ephemeris and Nautical See also:Almanac . He made his name by contributions on mathematical and See also:physical subjects in the Mathematical' Monthly . He soon, however, turned his See also:attention to See also:metaphysics and See also:psychology, and for the See also:North American See also:Review and later for the See also:National he wrote philosophical essays on the lines of See also:Mill, See also:Darwin and See also:Spencer . In 1870–71 he lectured on psychology at Harvard . Although, in See also:general, he adhered to the See also:evolution theory, he was a See also:free See also:lance in thought . Among his essays may be mentioned The Evolution of Self-Consciousness and two articles published in 1871 on the See also:Genesis of See also:Species . Of these, the former endeavours to explain the most elaborate psychical activities of men as developments of elementary forms of conscious processes in the See also:animal See also:kingdom as a whole; the latter is a See also:defence of the theory of natural selection against the attacks of St See also:George See also:Mivart, and appeared in an See also:English edition on the See also:suggestion of Darwin . From 1863 to 1870 he was secretary and See also:recorder to the American See also:Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in the last See also:year of his See also:life he lectured on mathematical physics at Harvard . His essays were collected and published by C . E . See also:Norton in 1877, and his Letters were edited and privately printed at Cambridge, Mass., in 1878 by See also:James See also:Bradley See also:Thayer .

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