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BOWEN, FRANCIS (18111890)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 342 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BOWEN, FRANCIS (18111890) , American philosophical writer and educationalist, was born in
Charlestown
 , Massachusetts, on the 8th of September 1811. He graduated at Harvard in 1833, taught for two years at Phillips
Exeter
 
Academy
 , and then from 1835 to 1839 was a tutor and instructor at Harvard. After several years of study in Europe, he settled in
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
  standard and the re-monetization of silver. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 22nd of January 189o. His writings include lives of Sir William Phipps, Baron von Steuben, James Otis and Benjamin Lincoln in Jared Sparks' " Library of American Biography ";
Critical
  Essays on the History and Present Condition of Speculative Philosophy (1842);
Lowell
  Lectures on the Application of Meta-physical and Ethical Science to the Evidences of Religion (1849) ; The Principles of Political
Economy
  applied to the Condition, Resources and Institutions of the American People (1856) ;. A Treatise on Logic (1864); American Political
Economy
  (187o); Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann (1877); and Gleanings from a Literary Life, x838188o (188o).


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