American educator and author, born in Norwich, VT, on the 15th of November 1840; graduated at Dartmouth in 1861; served one year in the Union army, and spent 1866–68 at the Universities of Halle and Berlin, Germany. From 1870 to 1880 he occupied the chair of modern languages at Ann Arbor, after which he was appointed professor of philosophy in the same university. From 1878 to 1885 he lectured at Johns Hopkins University on Ethics and the History of Philosophy; translated Ueberweg’s History of Philosophy (2 vols., 1872–74); and wrote British Thought and Thinkers (1880); Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: An Exposition (1882); and Hegel’s Philosophy of the State (1887).
