BIOGRAPHY 



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private lecturer on a variety of academic subjects in 

 became professor of logic and metaphysics in 

 1770, when he was 46, and continued till his retirement, 

 m 1 7'. 7, from the frailties of age, spending the last seven- 

 teen years of his life in a small house with a garden in 

 a quiet quarter of the town. His great work, the " Kritic 

 of Pure Reason," was published in 1781, and it was fol- 

 lowed by the " Kritic of Practical Reason" in 17 s " v :in . j 

 the "Kritic of Judgment" in 1790. His works inaugu- 

 rate a new era in philosophic speculation, and by the 



"M of a critical method dealt a death-blow to 

 speculative dogmatism on the one hand and skepticism 

 on the other. It was, he says, the skepticism of Hume 

 that first broke his dogmatic slumber, so that had Hume 

 not been, he had not been, and the whole course of modern 

 thought different. Kant by his critical method did for 



-ophy what Copernicus did for astronomy; he 



ralised the intelligence in the reason or soul, as the 



did the planetary system in the sun. Kant was a 



lean, little man, of simple habits, and was never wedded. 



804. 



l\;iuf tiianri. Vngdn a, painter: born in Chur in 1741 ; 



in 1766 went to England. She was elected a member of 



. :il Academy in 1768. In 1783 she married the 



:an artist. Antonio Zucchi, and thenceforward lived 

 in Italy. Died. 1807. 



Uc.m, Charles John, actor; born in Waterford. in ! 

 1M1; son of Edmund Kean; was educated at Eton; 

 made his debut at Drury Lane in 1827, but did n< 

 tabhsh his reputation till Is.'is. when he acted as Hamlet. 

 Richard III., and Sir (iiles Overreach. In 1842 he mar- \ 

 Miss Ellen Tree, a celebrated actress. From 1850 ! 

 to 1859 he was manager of the Princess's theater. Died, 



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Uc.itx, John, born in 1795; poet, son of a livery 

 stable proprietor in Finsbury; was educated at a school 

 at Enfield. where he formed a lifelong friendship with the 



r's son, Charles Cowden Clarke. He was appren- 

 ticed to Mr. Hammond, a surgeon at Edmonton, whom 

 he left in 1MU. but pursue* 1 his Studies al ( luy's Hospital 

 till 1M7. He then determined to follow the bent of his I 

 gemus. "Endymion," his fir>t long poem, appeared I 

 in 1MV "Isabella or the Pot of Basil," "Hyperion." 



"Ijunia. riie Eve of St. Agnes." and t he' " ( Hies," 



were written in the course of the next t\\<> vears. Mean- 

 while, an hereditary tendency to consumption had de- 

 veloped itself, and in September, Is JO. he was forced to 

 undertake a journey to Italy. He was accompanied 

 by his friend, Joseph Severn, who nursed him tenderly 

 during his lust illness at Rome, where he died in February. 



Keifer. Joseph \\arren. N ; caker United States 

 Congress; Iw.rn in Clark County. O .. .January :>U, i 



<-h College; since lv~S in law practice. 

 Springfield, o.; >er\d in Ohio volunteers m field, lst.1 

 65; four times wounded; declined appointment a-s lieu- 

 tenant-colonel L'titli Cmted States Infantry, 1 

 men.'. sosi'.t; department commander 



uiander-in-chief , \ 



2; delegate to Republican National Conven- 

 tion. lS7f); member of Congre- and since 

 1905 (speak Widen! of l.agonda National 

 SprmglieM. ( . Miice ls7:i Appointed and served. 



'.*9, an major-general volunteer! in war against 



Spain. Author: "Slavery and 1 .. 



U.ll.ir. Harry, public entertainer (magician); 

 Ixtrn July 11. IM'.t; graduated from I' 



ville. O . High School, ls<io When a young mat 

 amiatanl ' m; joined 



.port Brothers, spirit mediums, as business mai 



toured South America and " 



571 7;j; with Ling Look and Yamadura, 



under name ,,( Kellar, Ling Look ,V N 'amadura, ro\al 

 illusionist-, plavel thtoiigh South Amen. . 



ilia. India. China, I'hilippme Mauds, and .1 

 (Ling lxok and Yatnadura died in Clnna. ls77>; then 



Hill. .III 1 , -.eld live 



yearn through India. Burmah, Siam. .1.. 



;.t. and Mediterranean p'-n 



pcrfortnd in leading American 



l\cll\. llou.inl \t\\ooil. .in; born in Cam- 



Miatd fn.m Cm\. 



Philadelphia; a 



JollIM Ho|.kll|S 



profe^Hor of \ I >|IIIM 



\ ermiform Appendix :r 



M8S." nho aM,ut _'7O articles m me,|ica| j,,ur 

 Ucml.l, s. The, l.rate.1 fat. 



Philip, born in 1757; von of H Mager 



of a traveling company; was educated for the Roman 

 Catholic priesthood. His first appearance in London 

 was in the character of Hamlet at Drury Lane (1783). 

 He was manager of Drury Lane 1788-1802. and part 

 proprietor of Co vent (Janlen. 1S03-17. Died in 1823. 

 (2) Sarah Kemble (Siddons). (3) Charles, born in 177*>; 

 educated at the college of Douay, appeared at Drury 

 I-ane in 17'.M a- Malcolm in Macbeth; in 1803 joined 

 his brother and sister at Covent Garden, of which he was 

 manager for a short time in 1S17: \i-ited the t'nitd 

 States in 1832; retired from the stage in 1840. Died in 

 1854. (4) Frances Anna, born in 1S1 1. 



Ki MI pis, Thomas a, born at Hempen, near Dussel- 

 dorf ; son of a poor but honest and industrious craftsman 

 named Hamerkin; joined, while yet a youth, the "Broth- 

 erhood of Common Life." at Deventer, in Holland, and 

 at 20 entered the monastery of St. Agnes, near Zwolle. 

 in oberyssel, where he chiefly resided for seventy long 

 vears, and of which he became sub-prior, where he spent 

 his time in acts of devotion and copying manuscripts, 

 that of the Bible, among others, in the Vulgate 

 of it, as well as in the production of works of his own, 

 and in chief the "Imitation of Christ. ' a work that in 

 the regard of many, ranks second to the Bible, and is 

 thought likely to survive in the literature of the world 

 as long as the Bible itself; it has been translated into 

 all languages within, as well as others outside, the pale 

 of Christendom. 



Kent, James* an eminent American jurist; waa 

 born in Putnam County, N. Y., 1763. His most im- 

 portant work, "Commentaries on American Iji\\ 

 production of great literary merit, ami a work of high 

 authority in England as well as in the United States. 

 Died. 1847. 



Kepler. Johann, astronomer; born of poor parents 

 at \\urtternberg, in 1571; studied at Tubingen under 

 M:estlin; in l.V.KJ became professor of astronomy at 

 Gratz; in 1600 visited Tycho Bralie" at Prague, became 

 his assistant, and on his death (1601). was appointed 

 mathematician to the Emperor Kodolph. He was after- 

 wards professor at Lin*, and finally at Rostock. He 

 died in li.'{o. at Hatisbon Two of Kepler's laws 

 that enunciating the elliptic form of the planetary orbits. 

 and that of the "equable description of areas are 

 contained in "Astronomia Nova." His thin! law, that 

 the squares of the periodic times of the planets are as 

 the cubes of their mean distances, is to be found in the 

 "Harmonice Mundi." 



l\e> . I r in- i- xoM, author of "The Star SpangM 

 Banner." was !>orn in Maryland, t'nitd States, m 17MI 

 He wrote the words that have immortalized him when 

 he saw the national flag floating over the ramparta of 

 Baltimore in 1S14. Did. 1V.7. 



King. llenr\ Chun hill, president of Ober'in College. 

 since November 111. I'.ioj; Hillsdale. Mich , September 

 Is. 1V.S; graduate from Oberlm. Is7'l; oberbn Theo- 

 logical Seminary. 1SSU (B. I).); post-graduate frt.m 

 Harvard, l^xj xj \ M . 



p. I. ol.crlm. isi7. West,-. pun. Yale): 



Tutor in Latin, oberlin Academv. 1^7'.' xl ; tutor of 

 mathematics at Oberlm College. |xM xj ; associate pro- 

 fessor of mathematics a i Oberlm College. Isvi <K) : amo- 

 ciate professor of philosophy. IX'.MMM: : 1S91-07; 



professor of theology .since 1S'I7 ; dean of ( Ibcrlm College. 

 I'.MU-OL'. Author: "Outl.nc of Krdmnni 

 Philosophy." "Outline f the Microcosmus of !! 



I.ot/e. I'he Appeal of the Child." " Reconst ruction m 



Theology. Ideology and the Si.-ial < 



il and Ideal Klcments m Kducat ion." " 1; 

 Living." also various pamphlets ,,n plnlosopln 



Kmul.ikc. \lex.uidi r \\illi.ini. historian; U.rn in 

 Taunton, 1SI1. elucate<i at Canibr :.lv-c . was cnlleil to 



i 1837; n-pi--enti.l Bridxewater in parliament, 



II - works are "I!-. then." and the "History 

 of the War in the Crimea " Did. ! 



Kingslex. < h.irlcs. ,i, linrlish divine and (xipulnr 

 l.orn in Devonshire. |xp Hi- be-t \\..rk- 



tllC \\cll klM'Ull |M>||tllO eiOllOllllC IIOM 1 



the po \\erfill phllosop' 

 and the historical novel entitle,) : Ho'" 



,-one llmiiiKh *rvTl 

 ion- In ixilrinicf, he belong^ I 



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Light that Faileti." "Barrack-IU 



.an ( liurrh. Died, 1875. 



,,r; U.rn m li..inb:i\. India. 

 I in Cmtd Ben-ierx Collcsr. 



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