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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William Torrey Harris (1835–1909)

Harris, William Torrey. An American educator, and writer on education and philosophy; born at Killingly, CT, Sept. 10, 1835; died on Nov. 5, 1909. He established the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1867), the first publication of its kind in the English language, and became United States Commissioner of Education (1889). Among his works are: ‘Hegel’s Logic’ (1890), a critical exposition; ‘The Spiritual Sense of Dante’s Divina Commedia’ (1891); ‘Introduction to Philosophy’; ‘Psychologic Foundation of Education.’