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(Catholic College). His father proposed to put him in the army, but he preferred art, and studied at London and Paris. The French influence is visible in his earliest work (Flowers of Passion, 1877), but he had a very severe conception of realism in fiction, and for many years struggled to perfect his art and gain recognition. After the issue of many volumes of verse and fiction he obtained a wider audience with his Esther Waters (1894), and he continues to sustain his high reputation. Mr. Moore sometimes describes himself in conversa tion as a &quot; Protestant,&quot; though this means no more than that he would like to see Protestantism oust Catholicism in Ireland. His whole work, including his autobio graphical Hail and Farewell (3 vols., 1911-14), is pagan. The preface to his Apostle (1911), a literary drama in which St. Paul kills Christ, is a charmingly free study of the Bible. The theme grew in his mind, and, after a visit to Palestine in 1913, he presented it again in his beautiful rationalized version of the life of Christ, The Brook Kerith (1916).

MOORE, George Edward, Litt.D., LL.D., ethical writer. B. 1873. Ed. Dulwich College and Cambridge (Trinity College). Dr. Moore was First Class in the Classical Tripos and Craven University Scholar, and First Class in the Moral Sciences Tripos. From 1898 to 1904 he was a Fellow of Trinity College. Since 1911 he has been a lecturer in moral science at Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His chief work is Principia Ethica (1903). In an article in the International Journal of Ethics (October, 1901) he says that there is &quot; not one atom of evidence &quot; of the existence of a good, wise, and all-powerful God ; and he observes in his Ethics (Home University Library, 1912) : &quot; I think myself that, in all probability, there is no such being neither a God nor any being such as philosophers have called by the names [the Absolute, etc.] I have men tioned &quot; (p. 151).

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MOORE, John Howard, A.B., Ameri can writer. B. Dec. 4, 1862. Ed. Oska- loosa College and Chicago University. From 1890 to 1893 he was a lecturer, and from 1898 until he died a teacher in various High Schools at Chicago. His numerous works (especially his stimulating Better-World Philosophy, 1899) embody a very high and earnest humanitarian ideal ism, and he is more directly Rationalistic in his Savage Survivals (American edition, 1916 ; English, 1918). D. June 17, 1916.

MORAITA, Professor Miguel, Spanish historian. B. 1845. He was for many years professor of history at Madrid Uni versity, and Grand Master of the Spanish Freemasons. In 1844 he introduced into his lectures free critical comments on the orthodox claims for the Old Testament, and caused a considerable agitation. He was excommunicated, and the Catholics sought to remove him, but the rebellion of the students prevented his dismissal. He has written an important history of Spain and other works.

MOREAU, Hegesippe, French poet. B. Apr. 9, 1810. Being an illegitimate son, he had little education, and was early apprenticed to printing. He went to Paris to try his fortune in literature, but his years of struggle only ended in recognition at a time when he was fatally stricken by consumption. Moreau fought at the barricades in 1830, and was a thorough Eationalist. He wrote very fine verse and stories, and after his death Sainte-Beuve published them under the title Myosotis. D. Dec. 20, 1838.

MOREAU, Jacques Joseph, M.D., French alienist. B. 1804. Ed. Paris. After a very distinguished medical course, he became a travelling medical attendant until 1839. In 1840 he was appointed physician at Bicetre. Later he passed to La Salp6triere. Moreau was one of the founders of the Annales medico-psycho- logiques and a high authority on mental disease. He was a Materialist. 528