Elements of Logick: Or a Summary of the General Principles and Different Modes of Reasoning (Classic Reprint)
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Eulogy on the Rev. Joseph McKean, D. D. LL. D., Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory: Delivered Before the University, Cambridge, April 22, 1818 (Classic Reprint)
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A Treatise of the Philosophy of the Human Mind V2: Being the Lectures of the Late Thomas Brown
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Levi Hedge was an American educator and philosopher. He served as a professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity, and also as professor of logic and metaphysics at Harvard University.
Background
Levi Hedge was born on April 19, 1766 in Warwick, Massachussets, United States. He was the second of the six sons of Reverend Lemuel Hedge, a Harvard graduate and Congregational clergyman at Warwick, and Sarah, the daughter of the Reverend David White.
Education
Owing to the slender income of his father, and in accordance with the democratic customs of the day and place, Hedge was early apprenticed to a mason and made his own way through college, graduating from Harvard in 1792.
In 1808 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Brown University and in 1823 that of Doctor of Law from Yale.
Career
From 1795 to 1800 Hedge was annually appointed tutor in philosophy at Harvard, and in the latter year became the first "permanent tutor" there. In 1810 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics, and in 1827 Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, which position he held until 1832.
For over forty years he was a familiar and respected figure in Cambridge, often seen under one of the "three eminent umbrellas" in the town, "vast and heavy structures, equally hard to spread or furl. "
In 1816 Hedge published his Elements of Logick, or a Summary of the General Principles and Different Modes of Reasoning, which ran through numerous editions and was translated into German. In this remarkably clear and simple work, the author, far in advance of his times, took a broad view of his subject, which, he asserted, should "teach the principles of every species of reasoning, which we have occasion to make use of, both in the pursuits of science, and in the ordinary transactions of life. " Accordingly he devoted much attention to the grounds of probable reasoning, included a chapter on the calculation of chances, and, all in all, produced a more practical textbook than many of a later date. In addressing his classes in regard to this book, Hedge, if tradition be correct, was accustomed to say, "It took me fourteen years, with the assistance of the adult members of my family, to write this book, and I am sure that you cannot do better than to employ the precise words of the learned author. "
Besides being a philosopher, Hedge was also something of an orator and in 1818 delivered an edifying Eulogy on the Rev. Joseph McKean. His last work was to edit in two volumes the hitherto unpublished Treatise on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1827) by Thomas Brown of Edinburgh.
Hedge was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1805.
Connections
On January 15, 1801, Hedge married Mary Kneeland, the daughter of Doctor William Kneeland and grandaughter of President Holyoke of Harvard. Frederic Henry Hedge was their son.