Word: seybert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That somebody should endow a fund, as Mr. Henry Seybert of Philadelphia has recently done, for investigating Spiritualism is not so very surprising. Spiritualism is by no means the least plausible of current beliefs; and, even if it were such, rich men would be as liable as any one else to credulity over it. When so sober-minded a body of men, however, as the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about...
...been bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania by the will of the late Henry Seybert to establish a chair in mental and moral philosophy...
...will of the late Henry Seybert of Philadelphia gives almost his entire estato, amounting to over one million dollars, to educational and charitable institutions...