Charles Carroll Everett

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Charles Carroll Everett (June 19, 1829 - October 16, 1900), American divine and philosopher, was born at Brunswick, Maine.

He studied at Bowdoin College, where he graduated in 1850, after which he proceeded to Berlin. Subsequently he took a degree in divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. From 1859 to 1869 he was pastor of the Independent Congregational (Unitarian) church at Bangor, Maine. This charge he resigned to take the Hussey professorship of theology at Harvard University, and, in 1878, became dean of the faculty of theology. He died at Cambridge on the 16th of October 1900.

Interested in a variety of subjects, he devoted himself chiefly to the philosophy of religion, and published The Science of Thought (Boston, 1869; revised 1891). He also wrote:

• Fichte's Science of Knowledge (1884)
• Poetry, Comedy and Duty (1888)
• Religions before Christianity (1883)
• Ethics for Young People (1891)
• The Gospel of Paul (1892)

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