The universe as pictured in Milton's Paradise lost;: an illustrated study for personal and class use,
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Paradise Found. The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole. A Study of the Prehistoric World. ... With Original Illustrations.
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Paradise Found: The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; a Study of the Prehistoric World (1885)
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The Religions of the World and the World-Religion: An Outline for Personal and Class Use (Classic Reprint)
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The True Key to ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography
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Paradise Found, the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole: A Study of the Prehistoric World (Classic Reprint)
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The Earliest Cosmologies: The Universe As Pictured in Thought By Ancient (Classic Reprint)
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William Fairfield Warren was the first president of Boston University.
Background
William Fairfield Warren was born in Williamsburg, Massachussets, the youngest child of Mather Warren, farmer, sawmill owner, and building mover, and Anne Miller (Fairfield), woman of remarkable ability and piety. He was a descendant of William Warren, who emigrated to Boston from England in 1715, and of John Fairfield, an immigrant to Charlestown in 1635. The boy's religious and reflective temperament was fostered in the family circle and both he and his brother, Henry White Warren, became important figures in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Education
He attended the local schools and East Greenwich (R. I. ) Academy. Entering Wesleyan University in 1850, he was graduated three years later. He studied at the Andover Theological Seminary. During 1856-57 he attended the University of Berlin and the University of Halle.
Career
He opened a private classical school in Mobile, Ala. Returning North in July 1854, he was admitted to the New England Conference on trial in 1855 and supplied a church in Ballardvale, Massachussets, until 1856. He spent his vacations traveling in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt. After his return to the United States he preached at Wilbraham, Massachussets (1858 - 59), and at Bromfield Street Church, Boston (1860 - 61). He was ordained elder in 1861 and returned to Germany to become professor of systematic theology at Missionsanstalt in Bremen, remaining there until 1866. Articles in the Methodist Review, Bibliotheca Sacra, and other periodicals, and several books in German, notably Systematische Theologie einheitlich behandelt (Bremen, 1865), a volume intended to be an introduction to a larger work, gave him a reputation in theological circles. When the Methodist Biblical Institute was moved from Concord, N. H. , to Boston in 1867 and renamed the Boston Theological School, he became its president, serving as such until 1873. He was closely associated with the three Boston philanthropists, Isaac Rich, Jacob Sleeper, and Lee Claflin in the founding of Boston University and was the guiding spirit in its development. The theological school became its first department. As the university's acting president, 1869-73, and as president, 1873-1903, the work of creating the institution was largely his. His plans, notable in their comprehensiveness, were based upon a fusion of the English emphasis on the humanities grounded in the classics, the German thoroughness in research, and American democracy. Warren maintained that professional and technical schools should exist in comparative independence instead of operating as departments of a single school, and that pure science is better and more economically organized and is kept more vital in connection with schools of applied science. Full three-year courses in law, in theology, and in medicine were instituted. In 1878 a fourth year was added to the medical course. Advanced schools of oratory and of music were founded, while courses in science and agriculture in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Agricultural College took the place of the colleges of science and agriculture of the original plan. The requirements for admission to the college of liberal arts were constantly increased. A college of commerce and navigation was planned but not established until 1913. By 1875 the schools of law, medicine, and theology had a larger enrollment than those of any other American university having these professional departments. Scholarly teachers, most of them with European training, were secured, among them Borden P. Bowne, Henry N. Hudson, and Alexander Graham Bell. In his zeal for international educational opportunities, Warren completed in 1874 arrangements whereby students of the school of all sciences (the university's graduate school) could study at the National University of Athens and the Royal University at Rome. Warren vigorously opposed attempts to shorten the college course to three years as proposed by his contemporary Charles W. Eliot. His annual reports and his essays contributed to the Boston University Year Book, 1874-1904, left few phases of education untouched. He himself was an active teacher, maintaining his position as professor in the theological school from 1867 to 1920. He was dean of the school from 1871 to 1873, and from 1903 to 1911. His course in comparative religions, a subject in which he was an authority, was a famous one. The school under his leadership also offered lectures by representatives of other denominations, and was the first to require sociology and the study of missions in the course leading to a degree. Warren was actively interested in educational opportunities for women, and Boston University was the first university in America to open the full circle of professional schools to them. It awarded the degree of Ph. D. to a woman for the first time in America when in 1878 it conferred the degree on Helen McGill (Mrs. Andrew D. White). Warren was an original member of the corporation of Wellesley College and president of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women. His arguments for the admission of girls to the Boston Latin School were factors in the establishment of the Girls' Latin School. The World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 was in a remarkable measure a realization of his dream. Under his educational leadership, insistent on academic freedom and enlightened scholarship, there were trained by his theological faculty the men who, with others like-minded, led the Methodist Episcopal Church, comparatively untroubled, through the storms caused by Darwin's Origin of Species, Spencer's First Principles, and the Tübingen school of Biblical criticism. Warren retained his active interest in current affairs until his death at the age of ninety-six in Brookline, Massachussets He was buried in Mount Auburn.
Achievements
His principal publications were concerned with conceptions of the universe held by the ancients. In this field, besides many articles, he published The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography (1882), Paradise Found (1885), which went through eleven subsequent editions, and The Earliest Cosmologies (1909). His most famous address, a masterpiece of sustained imagery, was published in 1886 under the title A Quest for a Perfect Religion, went through five English editions, and was reprinted in Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
In his religion, Warren was devout without a trace of fanaticism, tolerant yet sure of his own beliefs, conservative but a believer in the essential soundness of modern approach to Biblical study.
Connections
He married, April 14, 1861, Harriet Cornelia Merrick of Wilbraham, Massachussets, later the first editor of the Heathen Woman's Friend and Der Heidenfrauen Freund. They had one son and three daughters.
Father:
Mather Warren
Mother:
Anne Miller (Fairfield)
Spouse:
Harriet Cornelia Merrick
She was a woman of rare ability and training in languages, being proficient in Latin, German, French, and Italian.
