Career
After the defeat of his party (Democratic) he came to the United States in 1852 and settled in Wisconsin as a farmer, though from 1866 he lived principally by his pen. In his early writings, notably in Idea and History of Philosophy (1838), he appears as a zealous disciple of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, Doctorate. C.
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