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Samuel Bailey was born on July 5, 1791 at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; the son of Joseph Bailey and Mary Eadon.
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Samuel Bailey was born on July 5, 1791 at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom; the son of Joseph Bailey and Mary Eadon.
Bailey was among the first of those Sheffield merchants who went to the United States to establish trade connexions. After a few years in his father's business, he retired with an ample fortune from all business concerns, with the exception of the Sheffield Banking Company, of which he was chairman for many years.
His life is for the most part a history of his numerous and varied publications. He died suddenly on the 18th of January 1870, leaving over £80, 000 to the town of Sheffield.
His first work, Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, published anonymously in 1821 (2nd ed. , 1826; 3rd ed. , 1837), attracted more attention than any of his other writings. A sequel to it appeared in 1829, Essays on the Pursuit of Truth (2nd ed. , 1844). Between these two were Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, Stc. (1823), and a Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measure, and Causes of Value (1825), directed against the opinions of Ricardo and his school. His next publications also were on economic or political subjects, Rationale of Political Representation (1835), and Money and its Vicissitudes (1837), now practically forgotten; about the same time also appeared some of his pamphlets, Discussion of Parliamentary Reform, Right of Primogeniture Examined, Defence of Joint-Stock Banks. In 1842 appeared his Review of Berkeley's Theory of Vision, an able work, which called forth rejoinders from J. S. Mill in the Westminster Review (reprinted in Dissertations), and from Ferrier in Blackwood (reprinted in Lectures and Remains, ii). Bailey replied to his critics in a Letter to a Philosopher (1843), etc. In 1851 he published Theory of Reasoning (2nd ed. , 1852), a discussion of the nature of inference, and an able criticism of the functions and value of the syllogism. In 1852 he published Discourses on Various Subjects, and finally summed up his philosophic views in the Letters on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (three series, 1855, 1858, 1863). In 1845 he published Maro, a poem in four cantoes (85 pp. , Longmans), containing a description of a young poet who printed 1000 copies of his first poem, of which only 10 were sold. His last literary work was On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and its Improvement (1862). Many of the emendations suggested are more fantastic than felicitous.
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Although an ardent liberal, Bailey took little part in political affairs. On two occasions he stood for Sheffield as a "philosophic radical, " but without success.
Bailey was a diligent student of Shakespeare.