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=Harris, Samuel Smith.= _Al._, 1841-1888. The second Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Michigan. The Dignity of Man; Christianity and
Civil Society; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality; Shelton, a
novel. _Mg. Wh._
=Harris, Thaddeus Mason.= _Ms._, 1768-1842. A Unitarian clergyman
of Dorchester from 1793 until his death. Discourses in Favor of
Freemasonry; Journal of a Tour in the Northwest Territory (1805);
Memorials of the First Church at Dorchester; Biographical Memoirs of
James Oglethorpe; Natural History of the Bible.
=Harris, Thaddeus William.= _Ms._, 1795-1856. Son of T. M. Harris,
_supra_. An entomologist and physician who was librarian of Harvard
University from 1831. He published Systematic Catalogue of the
Insects of Massachusetts, and a valuable work on Insects Injurious to
Vegetation.
=Harris, Thomas Lake.= _E._, 1823- ----. A mystical philosopher
who founded the Brotherhood of the New Life, which had its home
at Salem-on-Erie, near Brocton, New York. He has since lived in
California. Among his writings are included Epics of the Starry
Heavens; Modern Spiritualism; Lyric of the Morning Land; Truth and Life
in Jesus; The Millennium Age; Arcana of Christianity; The Wisdom of the
Adepts; God’s Breath in Man. _See Life of Laurence Oliphant, by Mrs. M.
O. W. Oliphant._
=Harris, William Logan.= _O._, 1817-1887. A Methodist bishop of
prominence as educator and missionary. The Powers of the General
Conference; Ecclesiastical Law (with W. J. Henry); Relation of
Episcopacy to the General Conference. _Meth._
=Harris, William Torrey.= _Ct._, 1835- ----. A speculative philosopher
and educator of Washington city, a translator of Hegel, and editor
of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy; since 1889 United States
commissioner of education. The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina
Commedia; Method of Study of Social Science; How to Teach Social
Science; Hegel’s Logic, a critical exposition; Introduction to the
Study of Philosophy. _Ap. Hou. Sc._
=Harrison, Mrs. Burton.= _See Harrison, Mrs. Constance._
=Harrison, Mrs. Constance [Cary].= _Va._, 1846- ----. A novelist and
miscellaneous writer of New York city. Story of Helen Troy; Woman’s
Handiwork in Modern Homes; An Edelweiss of the Sierras, and Other
Tales; Bar Harbor Days; The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book; Folk and Fairy
Tales; Anglomania; An Errant Wooing; A Virginia Cousin; Bric-a-Brac
Stories; A Bachelor Maid; Sweet Bells Out of Tune; Crow’s Nest and
Belhaven Tales; Externals of Modern New York. _Bar. Cent. Har. Scr._
=Harrison, Gabriel.= _Pa._, 1818-1902. A Brooklyn dramatist and
instructor in elocution. Life of John Howard Payne; The Stratford Bust,
a Critical Inquiry as to its Authenticity; Melanthia; Dartmore, are
among his writings.
=Harrison, George Leib.= _Pa._, 1811-1885. A philanthropist of
Philadelphia. Chapters on Social Science; Legislation on Insanity, a
compilation of lunacy laws.
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