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HAMILTON erine, daughter of the Duke of Albany, second son of James 11. ; bom probably in Glasgow, in 1504. He was educated partly at St. Andrews and partly at Paris, where he took his degree in 1520. While still a boy he had been appointed Abbot of Feam, in Rosshire, but never "went into residence, settling instead at St. Andrews in 1523. Here he began to announce his convictions in the prin- ciples of the Reformation, and was sum- moned in 1526 by Archbishop Beaton to stand his trial for heresy. He fled to Germany, where his education as a re- former was completed by an intimate ac- quaintance with Luther and Melanch- tnon. After six months' absence he re- turned to Scotland, and began to preach the Gospel openly at Linlithgow, but was allured by Beaton to St. Andrews under pretense of a friendly conference, put on his trial, convicted of various heresies, and burned at the stake, March 1, 1527. His death did perhaps more to extend the principles of the Reformation in Scotland than even his life could have done. HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM, a dis- tinguished Scotch metaphysician; bom in Glasgow, Scotland, March 8, 1788. His father and grandfather held in suc- cession the chairs of anatomy and botany in Glasgow University. Having studied with distinction at Glasgow, in 1809, he entered Baliol College, Oxford, where he gained first-class honors. In 1813 he was admitted to the Scottish bar, but never acquired a practice in his profes- sion, his taste lying much more toward the study of philosophy. In 1820 he be- came a candidate for the chair of moral philosophy in Edinburgh, but, being de- feated by Prof. John Wilson, he took the chair of universal history. In 1829 the publication in the "Edinburgh Review" of his celebrated critique of Cousin's system of philosophy gave him at once a first place among the philosophical writers of the time. This was followed in 1830 by his criticism of Brown, and in 1831 by his article on the authorship of "Letters of Obscure Men." In 1836 he was appointed to the chair of logic and metaphysics in Edinburgh Uni- versity. In 1846 he published an anno- tated edition of the works of Thomas Reid, and in 1854 the first volume of a similar edition of the works of Dugald Stewart. His lectures on logic and meta- physics were collected and edited by Dean Mansel and Professor Veitch. Hamilton's most important contributions to philosophy are connected with his doc- trine of the Quantification of the Predi- cate in his system of logic; his theory of the "relativity of knowledge," in the Kantian sense, held along with an ap- parently incompatible doctrine of imme- diate perception of the non-ego; and his definition of the infinite or unconditioned as a mere negation of thought. He died in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 6, 1856.  HAMILTON COLLEGE, an educa- tional non-sectarian institution in Clinton, N. Y., founded in 1812; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instruc- tors, 27; students, 298; volumes in the library, 84,000; productive funds, $1,- 478,000; income, $177,883; president, Frederick Carlos Ferry, Ph. D.; Sc. D., LL. D.  HAMLET, the hero of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, but without a figure originally historical, mythological, or partly both, still remains uncertain. The legend of Amleth is first found in the 3d and 4th books of the Latin history of Denmark by Saxo Grammaticus, written about the end of the 12th century, but first printed at Paris in 1514. The story of Hamlet was freely translated in the fifth volume of François de Belleforest's "Tragic Histories" (1570), and a rough but literal English translation of this exists in a single copy (once Edward Capell's) in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled "The Hystorie of Hamblet" (London, 1608; reprinted in Collier's "Shakespeare Library," 1841).  '''HAMLIN. ALFRED DWIGHT FOSTER''', an American architect, born in Constantinople, Turkey, in 1855, son of Cyrus Hamlin, founder and president of Robert College. He graduated from Amherst College in 1875 and studied ar- chitecture in the United States and in Paris. In 1883 he was appointed spe- cial assistant of architecture in Colum- bia University, and became successively instructor, assistant professor of archi- tecture, adjunct professor, and full pro- fessor in that institution. He was a member of several architectural societies. He was the author of "A History of Ar- chitecture" (1896); "History of Orna- ment, Ancient and Medieval" (1916); and was a frequent contributor to archi- tectural periodicals, and to various dic- tionaries and encyclopedias.  HAMLIN, CYRUS, an American mis- sionary; born in Waterford, Me., Jan. 5, 1811; was graduated at Bowdoin Col- lege in 1834 and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837; went to Turkey in the following year. From 1860 to 1876 he was president of Robert College, which he had founded after a long con- flict with the Turkish Government. Presi- dent Hamlin belonged to the group of American educators in the Levant whose 