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Another notable foreign member was John Stuart Mill, philoso- 

 pher, logician, economist, and a member of the British Parliament, 

 author of a " System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive," " Prin- 

 ciples of Political Economy," and other works that influenced 

 humanity. With the name of Mill can be coupled that of an Amer- 

 ican philosopher, Thomas Paine, the author of " Common Sense." 

 Another of our early men of letters was Constantin Francois Chasse- 

 boeuf, Comte de Volney. Traveller, historian and senator of France, 

 his fame rests chiefly upon his works : " Voyage en Egypte et en 

 Sirie" (1787); " Les Ruines, ou Meditations sur les Revolutions 

 des Empires " (1791) ; " La Loi naturelle, ou Catechisme du Citoyen 

 frangais " (1793), and " Recherches nouvelles sur I'Histoire an- 

 cienne" (1814-15). 



Of political writers and international jurists we can claim a num- 

 ber : Noah Webster, who wrote " Sketches of American Policy " 

 (1784) ; "Examination of the Leading Principles of the American 

 Constitution" (1787) ; "The Rights of Neutrals" (1802) ; and on 

 many other topics, and gave to America his " American Dictionary 

 of the English Language " ; Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of 

 " Democracy in America " ; Esquiron de Parieu, who wrote on polit- 

 ical science ; Henry Wheaton, our minister first at Copenhagen and 

 then Berlin — worthy follower of his great prototypes, Albericus 

 Gentilis, Hugo Grotius and Cornelius van Bynkershoek — whose 

 treatise upon the laws of nations has held high authority among 

 jurists ; Theodore Dwight Woolsey, a voluminous writer on religion, 

 political science, international law. President of Yale, a member of 

 ITnstitut de Droit International ; and Sir Henry Sumner Maine, 

 holder for an all too brief period of the Whewell chair at Cambridge 

 University and expounder of the growth of law and legal customs 

 among many nations in Europe and Asia. 



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^' The Society has among its endowments, The Henry M. Phillips' Prize 

 Essay Fund founded in October, 1888. The interest of this fund is awarded 

 for " the payment of such prize or prizes as may from time to time be 

 awarded by the society for the best essay of real merit on the Science and 

 Philosophy of Jurisprudence." The Phillips Prize was awarded in 1895 to 

 George H. Smith, of Los Angeles, California, for his essay on " The Theory 

 of the State." In 1900 the Phillips Prize was given to W. G. Hastings, of 



