The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-17
DIR. M'COSH Is DEAD.
He Made Princeton One OF the
Leading Universities
VIGOROUS IN HIS OLD AGE
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NcCosh. the venerable ex-prssidsns OF
princsson university. died ~ 10 o'clock
toairh.. He hsd been unconscious nesrly
ali dsy, and died in that condition His
con. DR.. Andrew J. HeCosh, his daughssrs.
Mrs. David Nages and Mrs. Alexander
Maitland. and his wife. Mrs- Isabella Me-
Coen. vsrs as his dssshbed- he had SUI
fersa no physical pain and. asids from
weakness brought on By Old age, nad been
In psrfsct hsalth- His doctors attribute
his death TO heart failure. induced By old
age.
ysmss Mccosh was born In Csr.ksoch,
Ayrshsre. Scotland. April 1. ISL he
ssndisd 81 the Univsrsity Of Giasgcw from
1874 20 fs2s. and at hat Of Edinburgh from
1873 until 1884 In the latter inssitntson
he was . pupil Of DIR. Thomas Chalmers
Having written an essay on the Stole
philosophy. The honorary degree Of A. d.
was conferred upon him. upon mo-
ton of sir William Hamilton. lie was
ordained minister Of the Church Of Scot
land at~Arhroash in fs33. but removed Ia
1919 20 Brsehin. where he ministered 10
loo communicates. In 1913 be took an
ectise part in the organization OF the fyso
Church OF Scotland. While pastor 81
Brschin he published work entitled
Method of the Divine Government. Poit-
zeal and Moral" in which be endeasored
TO interrogste nature By the indarise
method. inquirsng what IL the method OF
ths divine govsrnmens- primarily IA the
physical world. and secondariiy In the
providencs a. related 10 the charac-
ter OF nan and tending 20 his res
soration This work discusses the
laws Of substance and phenomena. and OF
cause and effect In physical nature and In
the human mind. lie subsequently con-
tinued the argument in The superns-
fural in Relation 20 the Natural. which
was In tended NJ the first part Of work on
ssThs Method of the Divine Government,
gupsrn aturaI and Spiritual. The pub
LEGATION OF the Method" attracted
public attention to Its author, both in
Great Britain and the United States.
eonse one having sent copy of IL 10 Earl
Clarendon, then lord lieutenant of Ire
land. that nobleman began 10 read IL be-
fore divine service on sunday morn
sns. and became so interested in IL
that he forgot 20 attend church. He I'm
mediatsly afterward appointed Mr.. Me-
Gosh. professor of logic and metaphysics
in Qneen's college. Belfast. Hers he re-
NAMED for sixteen years. drawing 60 the
institu ton . large body of students and
taking Q deep interest in defending the
national system of education in Ireland.
While there be wrote his "Intuitions of
She Mind Inductiyely Investigated.
which established his reputation as
Q metaphysical writer. Ii explains
what munitions properly are. which
Of them are moral convictions. and how
they are related 10 the sciences, particu-
larry to metaphysics and theology. In
lses hs removed TO the United States. hav-
ing been elected TO the college OF New Jsr-
ssy, Ut Princeton. where his administrs-
ton was remarkabiy successful. He made
Princston one OF the great American COL
isrss. His stan Of professors grew from
seventeen to forty-ons. and the average
attendance Of students from ga to COS.
His own classes In philosophy usually
numbered over 900. Having been thus
successful In his administration, and de-
string TO 10 relieved from the care of the
office on account OF advancing years,
DIR. Mocosh offered his resignation
ia November. 1887. TO take effect
on April Is. 1883 He received the
aud from Harvard In 1865, while Queens
university, Ireland, gave him that of
ID. Lit Or. Mecosh was q voluminous
writer, and beside the works already men
tened and many important addresses
and oonsrihutions TO various period
fcals. he publishsd Typical Forms and
Special Ends in Creation" with DR..
George pisf'y "a.aminasi9 n.,. Of aiil I.
Fundamental Tr1,h;" IN. Laws Of Dis.
earsivs Thought. Being Treatise on
ro.n scoss aa'''1 PhIlo.op snd
Biographical. Expesitory. Critical. from
Huschsson Co Hamilton" "a Reply 20
Prof Tyndaips Belfast Address" The
Development Hypothesis" and ''The
Emotions" He completed In 1856 the
Philosophical Series" which he had be-
gun In iss2. and which includes 'Criteria
OF Divers Kinds Of Truth, as Opposed
80 AEnostieism," Energy, Efficient
and Final Cause" development; What
Ii Can Do and What 1t Cannot
DO" and ''Certitsde. Providence and
Prayer" "Loekes Theory OF kaowledgs
With Notice Of Rerkelv.n ''Agnosticism
Of Hume aud Huxley. With Notice of the
Critical Philosophy" Herbert Speneer's
Philosophy as eliminating in lis Ethics"
and "fhs New Departure in COLLEGE Edu-
eaton" and Psychological Cognisive
Powers" In iss7 pr. MeCash combined
the phiiosophie series in Realistic
Philosophy" and "Psyehology OF the
Motive Power" his ann being TO foFma-
late Ga American philosophy of realism.
His mind and body we're vigorous 60 the
last, and he siolced heartily when Prince
ton won football same. Until the last
year he Was a sturdy man and great
walker. and when a young man IN Scot
land be used TO walk sixty miles a day.
Every one OF his twenty-ans books pad
and the doctor vas proud OF the fact lie
was man Of extraordinary industry, at
tending personally to his volumuions cor
respondenee-l
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