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Julius Hawley was born on September 14, 1824 at Bethel, Connecticut, United States, the son of Seth and Abigail (Taylor) Seelye and the brother of L. Clark Seelye.
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Julius Hawley was born on September 14, 1824 at Bethel, Connecticut, United States, the son of Seth and Abigail (Taylor) Seelye and the brother of L. Clark Seelye.
Seelye was graduated from Amherst College in 1849 and from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1852. He then went for a year of philosophical study at the University of Halle. He pursued his philosophical studies under the direction of Laurens P. Hickok.
In 1853 Seelye was installed as pastor of the First Dutch Reformed Church in Schenectady, where for five years he discharged his duties with signal success.
In 1858 he accepted the chair of philosophy at Amherst College and began a term of service that was to last, with the exception of one short interval, till his death, thirty-seven years later. He became the acknowledged leader of an able faculty, and when President William Augustus Stearns died in 1876 he became president. The exigencies of the office soon led him to give up most of his class work, but the power of his personality became even more effective throughout the college. His faith in youth, and his understanding, led him to devise the "Amherst plan, " a system of student self government, which under his administration proved highly successful at Amherst and profoundly affected the practices in other institutions throughout the country.
In other respects also his administration was notable. The evidence of his persuasiveness is to be found in the record of his visit to India in 1872, where he delivered a series of "Lectures to Educated Hindus, " The Way, the Truth, and the Life (1873), which aroused much interest among the high-caste natives and were printed and widely circulated at the expense of one of them. In 1887, as chairman of the board of visitors of the Theological Seminary at Andover, he voted for a sentence of "admonition" for all five of the leaders accused of heresy but was outvoted by the other two visitors in the case of Egbert Coffin Smyth, who was dismissed.
In Congress, from 1875 to 1877, he generally preferred to act with the Republicans, but he was uniformly opposed to the many proposals whose purpose was to keep alive the animosities of the Civil War. He also acted independently in 1877 by voting against accepting the action of the electoral commission in counting the vote of Louisiana for Hayes.
He published many articles on religious and political subjects and died in 1895.
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Seelye was dignified, well poised, resourceful, strong and benignant.
His tall, broad and stalwart figure, his massive but finely shaped head, and his melodious and resonant voice all contributed no doubt to his success in the pulpit. But more effective yet was his very apparent spiritual quality - the rare but essential union of intellect and emotion - which was set forth not only in his sermons but in his life.
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A distinguished colleague who knew him well throughout his adult life thus described his philosophic teaching: "Believing the transcendental philosophy as represented by Dr. Hickok to be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he carries it with him as a personal presence and breathes it as an element of life and power into all of his classes. At the same time accepting the religion of Christ as a revelation from God for men he holds up that religion as truth without any mixture of error, that life as perfection without any mixture of frailty, and makes his pupils feel that to become Christian philosophers, Christian scholars, Christian ministers, Christian men, is the highest aspiration of which their nature is capable".
Charles H. Parkhurst said of him: "He quickened us, not his words but he; not his explanations and exposition and demonstrations but he".
On October 23, 1854, Seelye was married to Elizabeth Tillman James of Albany. They had four children: William James Seelye, born in 1857, graduated from Amherst College in 1879, married Mary A. Clarke of Iowa City in 1886, and died in 1931; Elizabeth James Seelye, who was born in 1862, married James Wilson Bixler, an Amherst graduate, in 1891, and who died in 1894; Anna Hawley Seelye, who was born in 1866, married Benjamin Kendall Emerson, an Amherst College professor, in 1901; and Mabel Seelye, who was born in 1870, married James Bixler in 1898; and died in 1919.