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This ebook is complete with linked Index and linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. Frank Byron Jevons (1858-1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Dur… Mehr…

This ebook is complete with linked Index and linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. Frank Byron Jevons (1858-1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.He was the first Censor of St Cuthbert's Society from 1892 until 1897, a role he performed with "skill and humanity". In 1897 he was appointed as Master This ebook is complete with linked Index and linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. Frank Byron Jevons (1858-1936) was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.He was the first Censor of St Cuthbert's Society from 1892 until 1897, a role he performed with "skill and humanity". In 1897 he was appointed as Master of Hatfield College where he remained until 1922. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the university between 1910 and 1912 and Pro Vice-Chancellor between 1912 and 1914 and 1916 to 1921.He was Professor of Philosophy between 1910 and 1930 and presided at the inaugural meeting of the World Congress of Philosophy in 1923. One of the last Victorian polymaths, in the twenty years before and after 1900, he gave himself successively to the study of classics, philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology, and comparative religion. He was also concerned with social and national issues, especially the education of the working classes and of women. He was author of eighteen scholarly texts some of which, for example 'A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes' (1886) and 'An Introduction To The Study Of Comparative Religion', remain in print- From WikipediaOf the many things that fill a visitor from the old country with admiration, on his first visit to the United States, that which arrests his attention most frequently, is the extent and success with which science is applied to practical purposes. And it is beginning to dawn upon me that in the United States it is not only pure science which is thus practically applied,—the pure sciences of mechanics, physics, mathematics,—but that the historic sciences also are expected to justify themselves by their practical application; and that amongst the EBooks, Books, Introduction-To-The-Study-Of-Comparative-Religion~~Frank-Byron-Jevons, 999999999, An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion, FRANK BYRON JEVONS, 0011897937, WHITE DOG PUBLISHING, , , , , WHITE DOG PUBLISHING<