[Caleb Sprague]. American clergyman and author, born in Rutland, VT, on the 2nd of August 1804. Was graduated at Dartmouth, in 1825; studied theology at Andover and New Haven, and was ordained minister of the Congregational Church in 1829; held pastorates in Greenfield, MA, and in Hartford, CT; ordained priest in the Episcopal Church, in 1836; professor at Bristol College, PA, 1835–38; professor of philosophy in the University of New York, 1839–52; rector of St. Clements, New York, 1847–50. He was for a time editor of the Churchman, and on the staff of the New York Times; was one of the founders of the New York Review and the American Advocate of Peace. Among his works are Cousin’s Psychology (1834), translated from the French; Compendium of Christian Antiquities (1837); Moral and Philosophical Essays (1839); Guizot’s History of Civilization, with notes; Ancient and Modern History, revised (1845); Epitome of the History of Philosophy (1845); Dr. Oldham at Greystones, and His Talk There (1860); Social Welfare and Human Progress (1860); and Satan as a Moral Philosopher (1877). He died on the 9th of March 1884.
