Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Josiah Royce is to repeat in New York his course of lectures on Modern Thinkers, recently delivered in Boston with notable success. The general purposes of the course are to give personal characterizations of some of the most noteworthy modern thinkers; to suggest something of the nature of their attitudes towards the great issues of humanity and to illustrate spiritual problems of our day. The subjects are "Spinoza to Kant," "Fichte," "The Romantic Movement in Philosophy," "Hegel," "Schopenhawer," "The rise of the Philosophy of Evolution," "Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy," "Fate, Law and Freedom," and "Optimism, Pessimism...
...Boston theatre last night to an overflowing house. Great applause greeted the company. The scene of the auction room in which most of the play took place is one of extraordinarry ingenuity of detail and thoughtfulness. Pretty dancing and gay costumes were seen in abundance. George Marion, as Josiah and Flora Walsh as Baggage his daughter, divided the honors...
JUDGES.On literary, philosophical, and historical subjects: Professor Wendell, John Fiske, Esq., Josiah Quincy...