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papers. He was joint editor of the London Democrat (1839), and editor for some years of the Chartist Northern Star, the Demo cratic Review (1849-50), the Bed Republican 1850), and the Friend of the People. He lived in America from 1863 to 1888, and after his return he was on the staff of the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. He was a staunch Eationalist (McCabe s Life of Holijoake, i, 72). D. Dec. 9, 1897.

HARRIOT, Thomas, mathematician. B. 15GO. Ed. Oxford (St. Mary s Hall). He was mathematical tutor to Sir W. Raleigh, and he accompanied Sir R. Grenville s expedition to Virginia in 1581. On his return he was pensioned, and he devoted himself to mathematics and astronomy. Harriot was little behind Galileo in the use of the telescope, and he made many discoveries. Wood informs us that he &quot; cast off the Old Testament &quot; and was &quot;a Deist&quot; (Athen. Oxon. ii, 301). D. July 2, 1621.

HARRISON, Austin, writer. B. Mar. 27, 1873. Ed. Harrow, and Lausanne, Mar burg, and Berlin Universities. Mr. Harrison has written much on Germany, and he was one of the very few to foresee its recent development. He does not follow his father, Frederic Harrison, in his Posi- tivist views, but is rather a Nietzschean Rationalist. Since 1910 he has edited the English Review, in which most of his vigorous writing appears.

HARRISON, Frederic, M.A., D.C.L., Litt.D., LL.D., head of the English Posi- tivists. B. Oct 18, 1831. Ed. King s College, London, and Oxford (Wadham). Called to the Bar (Lincoln s Inn) in 1858, he was a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions 1867-69, secretary of the Royal Commission for Digesting the Law 1869-70, Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law to the Inns of Court 1877-89, and alderman of the L. C. C. 1889-93. Mr. Harrison was President of the English Positivist Committee from

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1880 to 1905, and he is still the most com manding figure of the movement. He was Rede s Lecturer at Cambridge in 1900, Washington Lecturer at Chicago in 1901, and Herbert Spencer Lecturer at Oxford in 1905. He records in his Autobiographical Memoirs (i, 150) that he definitely aban doned Christianity in 1857, the weakness of F. D. Maurice s sermons being the final influence in shaking his creed, and em braced Positivism about 1862. His literary works are numerous and distinguished, but his views on religion are best read in The Creed of a Layman (1907) and The Positive Evolution of Religion (1912). Both in character and in culture Mr. Harrison is one of the most eminent of British men of letters.

HARRISON, Jane Ellen, LL.D., Litt.D., Hellenist. B. Sep. 9, 1850. Ed. Chelten ham and Cambridge (Newnham). For some years Miss Harrison was lecturer on archaeology at Cambridge, and she has written weighty works on Greek religion (especially her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 1912). She was a member of the Council of the Hellenic Society 1889-96 and of the Committee of the British School of Archaeology at Athens in 1890 ; and she is a corresponding member of the Royal Archaeological In stitute of Berlin. Her views on religion are given in her Conway Memorial Lecture for 1919. She believes that &quot;the old ortho doxy is dead, and may well be buried,&quot; but admits an Immanent God who is &quot;nothing but the mystery of the whole of things.&quot;

HARTLAND, Edwin Sidney, LL.D., F.S.A., anthropologist. B. July 23, 1848. Ed. Bristol. He practised as a solicitor at Swansea from 1871 to 1890, and was clerk to the Swansea School Board from 1872 to 1890. Since 1890 he has been Registrar of the Gloucester County Court and District Registrar of the High Court. He was Mayor of Gloucester in 1902. Mr. Hart- land is a high authority on comparative religion (The Legend of Perseus, 3 vols., 326