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BOWEN, FRANCIS (18111890) , American philosophical writer and educationalist, was born in Charlestown
Exeter
Academy
Cambridge , Massachusetts, and was editor and proprietor of the North American Review from 1843 to 1854. In 185o he was appointed professor of history at Harvard; but his appointment was disapproved by the board of overseers on account of reactionary political opinions he had expressed in a controversy with Robert Carter (18191879) concerning the Hungarian revolution. In 1853 his appointment as Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity was approved, and he occupied the chair until 1889. In 1876 he was a member of the Federal commission appointed to consider currency reform, and wrote (1877) the minority report, in which he opposed the restoration of the double
Critical Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Philosophy (1842); Lowell
Economy
Economy
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