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Analysis of the background, plan and methods of Thucydides' History, and the political and intellectual forces which influenced his thought and style. Thucydides (c.? 472 - c.? 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of 'scientific history' by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect, without reference to intervention by the deities, as outlined in his introduction to his work.
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The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion, with its various denominations, from the life of Jesus Christ in the 1st century to the present. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity spread to all of Europe in the Middle Ages, and since the Renaissance, has expanded throughout the world and become the world's largest religion (with over 2 billion faithful). At first persecuted, but later embraced by the Roman Empire, the East-West Schism, or Great Schism of 1054, separated the Church into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, i.e., Western Catholicism (based on Rome) and Eastern Orthodoxy (based on Constantinople). The rise of Islam resulted in a number of Crusades fought by Christian Armies from Europe, whose aim was to re-capture and hold Jerusalem. In 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire, and Christianity was almost completely removed from the territory that now comprises Turkey. The three most important traditions that emerged from the Protestant Reformation (1521-1610) were the Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist, Presbyterian, etc.), and Anglican traditions.
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John Huston Finley was Professor of Polities at Princeton University from 1900 to 1903, and President of the City College of New York from 1903 until 1913, when he was appointed Commissioner of Education of the State of New York.
Background
He was born on a farm near Grand Ridge, Ill. Of Scottish lineage, he was the oldest of four children (two boys and two girls) of James Gibson and Lydia Margaret (McCombs) Finley and fourth in descent from the Rev. James Finley--a younger brother of Samuel Finley --who came from Ireland in 1734 and was one of the first Presbyterian ministers to cross the Allegheny mountains. Finley's early life was spent on his father's farm.
Education
Influenced by John Wylie, one of his early teachers, he entered nearby Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1887.
As an undergraduate he won oratorical competitions, was president of the literary society, improvised burlesques on classic themes, served as college librarian, contributed to college publications, and himself set part of the type in a Galesburg printing establishment for the college library's first catalogue.
Following his graduation from Knox, Finley spent two years (1887 - 89) at the Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student in politics, economics, and history in order to prepare himself for work in the field of journalism.
Career
While there he helped to edit a number of historical and economic publications. His first position, however, was in charitable work, as secretary of the State Charities Aid Association in New York City (1889 - 92).
In it he quickly demonstrated his expertness in the framing and promotion of legislation. During his entire subsequent career he was an enthusiastic advocate of private and governmental efforts for the better care of the sick, the needy, and the unfortunate.
He also found time while with this organization to establish and edit the State Charities Record and to serve as editor of the State Charities Review. Finley was only twenty-eight when, in 1892, he was called to the presidency of his alma mater. Here again he displayed his gift for leadership, and it was a matter of deep regret to all those interested in Knox when he returned to the East in 1899 to become editor of Harper's Weekly.
He remained a trustee of Knox, however, for the rest of his life. Soon after taking up his editorial duties, Finley planned a new magazine to which he gave the name World's Work. This he looked forward to developing in collaboration with Walter Hines Page.
His first active journalistic endeavor was, however, of short duration, for in 1900 he accepted an invitation to occupy a newly established chair of politics at Princeton University. Three years later, at the suggestion of Nicholas Murray Butler, Finley was induced to accept the presidency of the City College of New York.
The ten years of his administration saw several important developments, including the erection of a new group of college buildings on St. Nicholas Heights in Manhattan and the donation of the funds for the Lewisohn Stadium by Adolph Lewisohn.
Finley resigned in 1913 to become Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, in which office his record was outstanding.
In 1921 he became associate editor of the New York Times, a position he held for nearly two decades, contributing regularly to the editorial page. Probably no American of Finley's generation had a wider variety of interests.
He had great love for the classics and firmly believed that study of Greek and Latin afforded the best foundation for scholarship and the good life. His conversation, speeches, and writings were usually sprinkled with quotations from the ancients, and it was through his interest that funds were raised for the reconstruction of the Parthenon.
He had been brought up on the Bible, and for him its contents supplied daily spiritual nourishment. As head of the Red Cross Commission to Palestine and the Near East, 1918-19, he had the opportunity to take many long walks through the Holy Land, which he knew so well from his Bible reading.
His success in directing the work of feeding, sheltering, and providing medical care for thousands of victims of epidemic, war, and starvation was warmly applauded. Innumerable worthy causes enlisted his sympathies and collaboration. For nineteen years he was a leading figure in the Boy Scouts of America.
He was chairman of the New York Commission for the Blind for nearly twenty years. From the beginning he was greatly interested in the project, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, for a Dictionary of American Biography and was instrumental in enlisting the support of Adolph S. Ochs, with the result that the New York Times Company advanced the funds necessary for the preparation and editing of such a work.
He also served as treasurer of the committee of management under whose general supervision the original twenty volumes of the Dictionary were published (1928 - 36). He was constantly in demand as a speaker and delivered lectures on various foundations at a number of American and foreign universities. His association with Phi Beta Kappa, which he served as senator and in other capacities, was capped in 1925 when he gave the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard University.
Of the many organizations which claimed his attention, especially in the later years of his life, none concerned him more than the New York Adult Education Council, of which he was principal founder. One of Finley's greatest pleasures was walking. Annually for about thirty years he walked around Manhattan Island on his birthday, pausing for a time at his office on the way.
On one occasion, having missed the last train, he walked from Princeton to New York. Once he walked seventy-two miles in a day. There was not a Revolutionary iron mine in the Ramapo Mountains that he had not visited on foot. He disdained an overcoat, but over his shoulder dangled the end of a scarf woven in the Finley plaid.
Though absorbed in many activities, Finley found time, even after he joined the editorial staff of the Times, for frequent contributions in the fields of education, politics, and the humanities, among them the writing of eight books.
In the first of these, Taxation in American States and Cities (1889), he collaborated with Richard T. Ely, one of his teachers.
The American Executive and Executive Methods (1908) was also a joint undertaking, with John F. Sanderson. The French in the Heart of America (1915) was inspired by a long tour, mostly on foot, in which he followed the routes of the French explorers in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River country.
His Report of a Visit to Schools of France in War Time (1917), A Pilgrimage in Palestine (1919), The Debt Eternal (1923), Mystery and the Mind's Desire (1936), and The Coming of the Scot (1940), the last completed three days before his death, were distinguished by an intimacy of approach to his subject matter and great literary charm.
His Poems (1941) provide insight into his character. Many honors came to Finley--office and honorary membership in learned and philanthropic societies (including the American Academy of Arts and Letters), honorary degrees from thirty-two American and Canadian colleges and universities, decorations from thirteen foreign governments.
But neither intellect nor fame separated him from plain people and their concerns. A disciplined mind, a cultured taste, and an active conscience brought him always to the side of humanitarian causes and programs of social justice. His personal contacts with his fellow men in trouble were kindly and constructive. In short, he had a gift for friendship democratically used and constructively directed to help others. If he had a weakness, it was his inability, especially in his last years, to say no to the many demands upon him.
In April 1937 he became editor-in-chief of the New York Times in succession to Rollo Ogden. This assignment brought with it new duties and responsibilities, but Finley failed to curtail his many other activities until he was stricken with a severe illness in the following year. His recovery was slow, and as a consequence he was given the title of editor emeritus in November 1938.
Less than two years later a coronary embolism resulted in death at his home in New York City. Interment was in the family plot in the Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Membership
He was made an honorary member of the Northwestern Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
On June 29, 1892, Finley married Martha Ford Boyden of Sheffield, Illinois. They had four children: Ellen Boyden, Margaret Boyden, Robert Lawrence, and John Huston, of whom the last became a well-known classical scholar and professor of Greek literature at Harvard.