to purify the morality and ennoble the energy of all true thinkers and workers. Both his work and his writings prove this.
He founded the "Philosophic Society" of St. Louis, in 1866. He is a member of the American Historical Association, and a fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. He was president of the National Educational Association in 1875, and for fifteen years he has been an officer of the American Social Science Association. He received the degree of LL.D. from the State University of Missouri in 1870; from the University of Pennsylvania in 1894; from Yale in 1895; from Princeton in 1896; that of Ph.D. from Brown in 1893, and from the University of Iowa in 1899. He founded, 1867, and still conducts, the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy." He was on the editorial staff of Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia; is the editor of Appleton's International Education Series; and he also edited Kroeger's translation of Fichte's "Science of Ethics" (London, 1897). He is the author of "Introduction to the Study of Philosophy," 1890; "Hegel's Logic," 1890; "The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Comedia," 1891; "Psychological Foundations of Education," 1898, besides numerous contributions to periodicals.
He was married at Providence, Rhode Island, December 27, 1857, to Miss Sarah Bugbee. His address is Washington, District of Columbia.
