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first sketch of his rather primitive Socialism appeared in 1802 (Lettres d un habitant de Geneve a ses contemporains) ; but neither this nor his succeeding works attracted any attention until he published his Systeme Industriel (3 vols.) in 1821-22. He now secured a number of enthusiastic followers, including the future historian Thierry and Auguste Comte, and they supported him he had lost his second fortune in his later years, which were spent in great privation. His last work, Nouveau chris- tianisme (1825), is the best expression of the sentimental Christianity, rejecting all the Church doctrines, which he advocated. His sect, the Saint Simonians, spread little until after his death. D. May 19, 1825.

SAISSET, Professor Emile Edmond,

French philosopher. B. Sep. 16, 1814. Ed. Ecole Normale. Saisset belonged to the Eclectic and Pantheistic school of Victor Cousin. After teaching for some years in the provinces, he was appointed professor at the Ecole Normale in 1842, associate professor of Greek and Latin philosophy at the College de France in 1853, and professor at the Sorbonne in 1862. He was a member of the Academie des Sciences Morales. His views on reli gion are best seen in his Essai sur la philosophic et la religion an xix siecle (1845) and Le scepticisms (1865). D. Dec. 17, 1863.

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SALAYILLE, Jean Baptiste, French writer. B. Aug. 10, 1755. Ed. Paris. Salaville embraced the cause of the Eevo- lution, and was employed by Mirabeau to copy out or compile his speeches. He collaborated on the Citoyen Francais and other journals, and wrote a number of works and pamphlets which were charac terized by a wise moderation (De la Revolution Frangaise comparee d celle d Angleterre, 1790; L Homme et la societe, 1799 ; etc.). He was a convinced Atheist,

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yet he strongly condemned both the Cult of Reason and the Cult of a Supreme Being. See Aulard s Culte de la Baison, pp. 86-96. D. 1832.

SALEEBY, Caleb Williams, M.D.,

F.E.S.E., writer. B. 1878. Ed. by his mother (daughter of Caleb Williams), and Edinburgh Eoyal High School and Univer sity. He was first in first-class honours, Ettles Scholar, and Scott Scholar in Obstet rics. At the end of his course he was appointed junior demonstrator of anatomy, and later resident physician to the Edin burgh Maternity Hospital and Eoyal Infirmary. He passed to London and became assistant to Sir Jonathan Hutchin- son at the Polyclinic. He was in those days an ardent Spencerian (Evolution, the Master Key, 1906, etc.), describing himself as &quot; a camp follower of those who believe that we cannot know reality&quot; (p. 323). He has not, of course, changed his Agnostic views, but for the last fifteen years he has been chiefly occupied with Eugenist propa ganda. He was a member of the National Birth-rate Commission from 1913 to 1916, Chadvvick Lecturer in 1915, and Eoyal Institution Lecturer on Eugenics in 1907, 1908, 1914, and 1917. Dr. Saleeby has edited &quot; The New Library of Medicine,&quot; and has sat on various national and scientific commissions.

SALLET, Friedrich von, German poet. B. Apr. 20, 1812. He entered the army in 1824, and in 1835 went to study at the Berlin Military College with a view to becoming a teacher. The success of some of his poems, however, led him to abandon the military world in 1838 and confine himself to writing. His chief work, Laien- evangelium (1842), was furiously attacked as &quot; atheistic,&quot; though Sallet professed to expound in it a new ethic by means of which Christianity was to make man divine. It was Hegelian Pantheism. His works were published in five volumes in 1845-48, and there is a biography by Gottschalk. D. Feb. 21, 1843. 702