New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-14
GEO. BANCROFT.
MR. pAycRoErs SKETCH OF MR.. RIPLEY.

RILEY, GEHRGE an American aut!or Born az Green,
felt Mass. october 3. 1902 He graduated a. Harvard
in 1926. In the latter year ne graduated at me
Cambridge Divinity School, ana immedately
e Church 2 Boston, Which office he filed from
1925 to lslL HIS MT mpo95ant w .caI
amIrs." published at Boston in 1898 They contained
elaborate intoduc ory ana critical notices OF me works
OF Cousin JOuffrOy and Benjamin Constant, especially
OF Cousin followed by transations by himself OF
selected passages from their several works
rs were best suited to Illustrate the course OF
French philosophy in its new departure. aiterr
y had 9rSe Tn away ro@ aa ns marked no uenee
p"c,aT in New-Eu glazed in 1857 they repub-
i,h~d IN Edinburgh Twelve other volumes Of Speci-
mems OF Foreign Literature followed under DIT. KID
ieys editor.nip; but the transladous mace by
J. s. Dwight Margaret Fuller c. c. FELTON,, W. II. Chan
ming. James T. CLARK. c. T. Brooks and Others,
Philosophy OF Religion" 10 which Andrews Moron, in
the same year. made very elaborate repy IA " a Ds-
letter Mr.. Ripley to Mr. Morton. aud further re-
ply by MIR. Norton In the same year Dir Ripley LOOK
inc ground that IN the possession OF reason
that religious truth is coilcdrnt with ms
higher nature and carries with IL rs own evidence ana
car thus he received by ALL aud held vita certnnty Mr.
Norton. the other hand, maintained that tiutn Is
me expression OF faot; that mere is no absolute
certainly beyond the moment of cOnseousn So ~ BOZ
that there can be no intuition, no direct perception o.
the truth of Clri.tanliy no mctAlhS si1iI
In a second letter TO Andrews Norton published ID 1870
Mr.. Ripley gave luminous ana candd e4 Oslloh OF the
system OF SPIN 81, anu I'D tnrd oS'er, puDse4 III tne
year. discussed AT iarae and win critical exact
meas the theology ~ schirierin icher.
In $40 Mr. Ripley became associated with Ralph
Wa do Emerson and Margaret Fuller tu the edtOrsh
of me dat In Marcu, 1871, Ar. RIPLEY founded the
Brook Farm Association Of EduCalVa and Agrcu turc
of which president unit It's oissu utiOn IL DC
tober 1877 In autumn u that wear he removed To
New YORK and became Editor of me H0r6inger 1917 to
1919 journal o. literature aud science, IN con
lection with William II. Ginning. Charles \. Dana
,Ionn 81 Dwight and Parke Goodwin. He has been fire.
uuent contributor tine periodical literature OF the day
and for MANY wears the editor OF the literary de-
paftment of Hapei's Magazine.
In 1919 De bee ine proprietor OF TtE NEW YORK
TRIBUNE and It's literary edor which post he still re-
tains 1879 For more than quarter OF century the
whole literature OF the United States, and much Of ta
OF Europc mas come before him cr1tIe, and III AL
thar Drrod his candOr has once been called IN
question In 500 h travelled In Europe. correspond NJ
with The TRIBUNE, and again III lS69'70, publishing IN
tbat journal series OF letters " EcumeDical
Council" and the Franco PrussiaD War" He has
edit cI IN conjunction with BLyard Taylor Hand Book
OF Literature and the Fine Arts" (Sy0, New-YOrk,
1852 and IN conjunction wlh G. a. Dana the New
American CycOpe liza" Q6 vols. Sgo, New-YOrk
1888 1862; new ton under the title OF the AmcrI-
can Cyc0pedia Q572 et sep