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SAUNDERSON

months in prison. He had a printing and publishing business of his own for his rebellious works. D. 1919.

SARRAGA DE FERRERO, Belen,

Spanish educationist. Seiiora Sarraga edited the Conciencia Libre, a Rationalist and feminist organ, at Malaga for many years. She is a very eloquent speaker, and had a great influence in emancipating the women of Spain. She was a con spicuous and enthusiastic attendant at the International Freethought Congresses at Rome and Paris (in 1904 and 1905). She is now head of a Normal School in Argen tma, and takes no less interest in the spread of Rationalism among the women of South America.

SARS, Professor Georg Ossian, Ph.D., Norwegian zoologist. B. April 20, 1837 Ed. Bergen, and Christiania and Upsala Universities. He began in 1870 to teach .zoology at Christiania University, and since 1874 has been professor there. From 1873 to 1893 he was also Director of the Fisheries Research Department. Professor Sars has written several volumes of the &quot; Challenger Series,&quot; besides other works, and is one of the first authorities on the Mollusca. He is a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and a member of the English Linnsean Society. In the Haeckel Memorial Volume (Was Wir E. Haeckel Verdanken, 1914, i, 305-8) he fully endorses the Monistic philosophy of Professor Haeckel. He holds, like Haeckel, that &quot;progress can no longer be promoted by metaphysical speculation and antiquated theological dogmas&quot;; and he speaks of The Riddle of the Universe as &quot; the stately structure of the Monistic philosophy.&quot;

SAULL, William Devonshire, F.G.S., F.R.A.S., geologist. B. 1784. Saull was a London business-man, who became an expert geologist and made a fine collection, which was turned into a free museum. He read a paper to the Geological Society in 1849, and others to the Society of 709

Antiquaries. He was an Owenite Ration alist, and one of the founders of the Hall of Science in City Road. He was also a keen astronomer, though attached to somewhat fantastic theories. D. Apr 26 1855.

SAUNDERS, Thomas Bailey, M.A.,

lawyer and writer. B. 1860. Mr. Saunders is a barrister who is deeply interested in the teaching of Schopenhauer and has translated into English many of his works (The Art of Literature, 1891 ; The Art of Controversy, 1896; etc.). He has also translated Harnack and The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (1893). His own Rationalist views are given in his Quest of Faith (1899). He rejects the creeds, and accepts only &quot; a co-ordinating Power.&quot;

SAUNDERSON, Professor Nicholas,

M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., mathematician. B. Jan. 2, 1682. Ed. Penniston Free School and Cambridge (Christ s College). Saun- derson had become totally blind in his second year of life through small-pox, yet he made brilliant studies and became an excellent classical scholar and mathema tician. He taught science and mathematics at Cambridge, and in 1711 he was appointed Lucasian professor at the University. He taught for seven or eight hours daily, yet was a man of wide culture and a good flautist. He was admitted to the Royal Society in 1719. He published no works, but ho wrote a valuable Algebra (in two volumes) and some mathematical papers which were published after his death. Saunderson s extreme Rationalism was so well known that, when he succeeded Whiston as Lucasian professor, the wits said : &quot; They have turned out Whiston for believing in but one God, and they have put in Saunderson who believes in no God at all.&quot; Chalmers, who tells this in his Biographical Dictionary, is pained -that a man who had experienced &quot; the kindness of Providence throughout his extraordinary ife&quot; (he was blind for fifty-six years) should have been guilty of &quot; the obtrusion 710