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Eliot, one of the first of American scholars, has the Order of the Eising Sun and the Eoyal Prussian Order of the Crown ; he is an Officer of the Legion of Honour and of the Crown of Italy ; and he is a corre sponding member of the Institut de France and the British Academy, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Amherst Philosophical Society. He grew up in Boston Uni- tarianism, but he exchanged this for Emerson s &quot; all-sustaining soul of the universe &quot; (Four American Leaders, 1907, p. 123). He thinks religion necessary, but he regards orthodoxy as no longer possible (The Happy Life, 1896).

&quot;ELIOT, George.&quot; See CROSS.

ELLERO, Professor Pietro, Italian jurist. B. Oct. 8, 1833. Ed. Padua Uni versity. He was professor of the philo sophy of law at Milan in 1860, then pro fessor of penal law at Bologna from 1861 to 1914. In 1866-67 he sat in the Italian Parliament. He was Councillor of the Eoman Court of Cassation from 1880 onward, and Senator since 1889. Ellero was one of the most eminent of modern Italian jurists, an ardent humanitarian, and so outspoken a Eationalist that several of his works are on the Index. D. 1914.

ELLIOT, Hugh Samuel Roger, scientific writer. B. Apr. 3, 1881. Ed. Eton and Cambridge (Trinity College). After serving in the South African War he studied science for some years at the Chelsea Polytechnic, the Eoyal College of Science, and University College. He has been departmental editor of the Edinburgh Review, and is editor of the Annual Register and publishers reader. He has translated Lamarck s Philosophic Zoologique (1914), edited the Letters of J. S. Mill (1910), and written Modern Science and the Illusions of Professor Bergson (1912) and other works. Mr. Elliot rejects even Agnosticism as inadequate, and urges the adoption of 235

&quot; Scientific Materialism.&quot; In his latest work he combines this with Idealism (Modern Science and Materialism, 1919).

ELLIOTSON, John, M.D., F.E.S., physician. B. Oct. 29, 1791. Ed. Edin burgh, Cambridge (Jesus College), and St. Thomas s and Guy s Hospitals. He was assistant at Guy s 1816-21, Lumdean lecturer in 1829, and professor of the practice of medicine at London University College in 1831. He founded the Phreno logical Society, was President of the Eoyal Medical and Chirurgical Societies, and was chiefly instrumental in establishing the University College Hospital. He opened a mesmeric hospital in 1849, and founded the Zooist. Dr. Elliotson, who was in his day one of the most eminent physicians- and teachers of medicine in London- Thackeray dedicates Pendennis to him was a Materialist (see Introduction to Engledue s Cerebral Physiology}. D. July 29, 1868.

ELLIS, Alfred Burdon, writer. B. Jan. 10, 1852. Ed. Eoyal Naval School. He entered the army and served in the Ashanti and Zulu wars. In 1878 he was District Commissioner at Quettah, in 1879 captain, in 1884 major, and in 1892 colonel. Colonel Ellis used his long stay in West Africa to make a thorough study of native life and languages, and his works on the religions of the Gold and Slave Coasts are very valuable. D. Mar. 5, 1894.

ELLIS, Henry Havelock, L.S.A., sociologist. B. Feb. 2, 1859. Ed. private schools and St. Thomas s Hospital. He was a teacher in Australia from 1875 to 1879. On his return to England he qualified in medicine, but after a short period of practice he turned to science and letters. His first works were The New Spirit (1890) and The Criminal (1890). His writings on the psychology of sex and on penal reform are of especial value. His heterodoxy is stated in Affirmations (1897).

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