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Marburg. Professor Cohen is head of the Neo-Kantian Bationalist school in Germany, and has written many works on philosophy and Jewish literature. He professes a kind of idealistic Theism.

COIT, Stanton, Ph.D., Ethicist. B. (United States) Aug. 11, 1857. Ed. Amherst College, Columbia College, and Berlin University. In 1886 he founded the New York University settlement. Migrating to London, he established a number of Ethical Societies in England, and was their principal lecturer. He also founded the Moral Instruction League, and has expounded his ideas in National Idealism (1908) and other works. Dr. Coit speaks of &quot;God,&quot; but means only &quot; the good&quot; (in man and his ideals) ; and he rejects the idea of personal immortality and all Christian doctrines.

COKE, the Honourable Henry John,

writer. B. Jan 3, 1827, third son of the first Earl of Leicester. Ed. East Sheen, in France, and at Cambridge (Trinity). He served in the Navy during the first China War, and was afterwards private secretary to Mr. Horsman, the Irish Secretary. He has published, besides a few novels, several volumes on religion, notably Creeds of the Day (2 vols., 1883), The Domain of Belief (1910), and Our Schools and the Bible(l91&amp;lt;i). In these, and especially in his autobiogra phical Tracks of a Boiling Stone (1905), he professes Agnosticism. D. Nov. 12, 1916.

COLERIDGE, Sir John Duke, first Baron Coleridge, F.E.S., D.C.L., M.A., Lord Chief Justice of England. B. Dec. 3, 1820. Ed. Eton and Oxford (Balliol). In 1843 he became a Fellow of Exeter College, and he was admitted to the Middle Temple in the same year and called to the Bar in 1846. In 1855 he was appointed Eecorder of Portsmouth, in 1861 he became Queen s Counsel, in 1868 solicitor-general, in 1871 attorney-general, and in 1873 Chief Justice of the court of common pleas. He was made a Baron in 1874 and Chief 171

Justice of the Queen s Bench in 1880. As Liberal M.P. for Exeter (1865-73) Coleridge supported the abolition of reli gious tests in the universities and the dis establishment of the Irish Church. His creed is candidly expressed in a letter to his intimate friend, Lord Bramwell (Some Account of G. W. Wilshere, by C. Fairfield, 1898, p. 105). &quot;Of ecclesiastical Chris tianity,&quot; he writes, &quot; I believe probably as little as you do,&quot; and he thinks it will last &quot;longer than is good for the world.&quot; He was a Theist, but rejected Christian doctrines. D. June 14, 1894.

COLINS, Baron Jean Guillaume Cesar Alexandre Hippolyte de, Belgian econo mist. B. Dec. 24, 1783. Baron de Colins was one of the most powerful progressive workers in Belgium in the first half of the nineteenth century. He wrote nineteen volumes on social science, and founded what he called &quot;rational socialism.&quot; In the works in which he discusses religion he is Agnostic as to God, but believes in a future life. D. Nov. 12, 1859.

COLLIER, the Honourable John,

painter. B. Jan 27, 1850, second son of Lord Monkswell, an amateur painter of repute. Ed. Eton, the Slade School, Paris (under J. P. Laurens), and Munich. As early as 1881 Mr. Collier s fine picture, &quot; The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson,&quot; was purchased by the Chantrey Fund, and his paintings are still one of the features of the annual exhibition. Mr. Collier married a daughter of Professor Huxley, and when she died he slighted ecclesiastical tradi tions, and greatly helped the campaign for the reform of British law, by marrying her sister Ethel (1889). Both are Agnostics, and are familiar and greatly esteemed figures at Eationalist functions in London. Mr. Collier has written A Manual of Oil Painting (1886), The Art of Portrait Painting (1905), and a few other works. During the War he served as a temporary clerk in the Foreign Office. He is a member of the E. P. A. 172