Scotch philosopher and educator, born at Mordington, Scotland, on the 22nd of February 1836; graduated from the University of Edinburgh; appointed professor of philosophy in the University of St. Andrews in 1876. His teachings exerted a strong and wholesome influence upon the young men placed under his tuition. He wrote and compiled a number of works of practical value for students in and out of universities; among his publications being Philosophical Classics for English Readers (15 vols., 1880–90); University Extension Manuals (18 vols., 1891–94); Poems from the Dawn of English Literature to 1699 (1863); Colloquia Peripatetica (5th ed., 1879); Aspects of Theism (1894); The Christian Ethics (1894); The Philosophy of the Beautiful (2 vols., 1891–93).
