( Charles Rice, professor of the jurisprudence of St. Tho...)
Charles Rice, professor of the jurisprudence of St. Thomas Aquinas for the last twenty years at Notre Dame Law School, presents a very readable book on the natural law as seen through the teachings of Aquinas and their foundations in reason and Revelation. Reflecting on the most persistent questions asked by his students over the years, Rice shows how the natural law works and how it is rooted in the nature of the human person whose Creator provided this law as a sure and knowable guide for man to achieve his end of eternal happiness. This book presents the teachings of the Catholic Church in her role as arbiter of the applications of the natural law on issues involving the right to live, bioethics, the family and the economy. Charles Rice has produced a firmly grounded and accessible handbook which touches on the most important topics regarding natural law that will benefit readers of all backgrounds.
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chemist pharmacist philologist
Charles Rice was born on October 4, 1841 in Munich, Bavaria, of Austrian parents.
The death of his parents threw him entirely on his own resources, and in 1862, with the aid of an uncle residing in America, he emigrated to the United States.
He was educated in private schools and seminaries in Munich, Passau, and Vienna, and spent some time in a Jesuit college in Paris. He was well schooled in the natural sciences, but received an exceptional grounding in the classics, and at Passau, at the age of twelve, began the study of Sanskrit under an enthusiastic teacher.
Obtaining almost immediately an appointment as surgeon's steward on the sloop-of-war Jamestown, he gained his first experiences in the compounding of medicines. Discharged from the navy, in 1865, he contracted malarial fever and was sent to Bellevue Hospital, New York.
After his recovery, he was assigned in a minor capacity to the drug department of this hospital. Because of his unusual qualifications, he was soon advanced to the position of chief chemist of the department of public charities and correction of the City of New York and later became superintendent of the general drug department of Bellevue and its subsidiary hospitals, a position of wide responsibilities in which he served for the rest of his life. Owing to the nature of his work at Bellevue, Rice devoted much of his time to chemical and pharmaceutical subjects, and associated himself with various pharmaceutical organizations.
In 1870 he was appointed trustee and librarian of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York and in 1880 was unanimously elected to the post in which he rendered his most distinguished service - the chairmanship of the committee of revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia, which he held until his death.
Between 1871 and 1901 he contributed many original articles to pharmaceutical journals, in addition to the almost innumerable papers he wrote in connection with the revisions of the Pharmacopoeia.
He was conversant with French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch and Hebrew, while Latin and Greek were as familiar to him as his classic English. Among the Oriental languages, he had a command of Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese, with Sanskrit as his favorite; indeed, he was at one time classed among the foremost Sanskrit scholars of the United States. He died in his sixtieth year, of an aneurism of the aorta complicated with chronic nephritis.
His unusual talents as an organizer and executive, coupled with his scholarly attainments, enabled him to be instrumental in placing the United States Pharmacopoeia in the front rank of the pharmacopoeias of the world. He also rendered valuable services in the proof-reading of The Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. As a philologist, Rice was honored by scholars both in the United States and abroad.
( Charles Rice, professor of the jurisprudence of St. Tho...)
He was an indefatigable worker, modest to a fault, broadminded and charitable, ever ready to advise or assist either a student or a colleague.
He was unmarried.
