Bowen, Francis
journalist, educator, author, was born Sept. 8, 1811, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a professor of philosophy at Harvard university for many years, and eminent both as philosopher and political economist; and for eleven years he was the editor of the North American Review. He opposed the systems of Kant, Fichte, Cousin, Comte, and Mill, and was answered by the latter in a third edition of his Logic. He was the author of Critical Essays in Speculative Philosophy; Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Schopenhauer and Hartmann; Treatise on Logic; American Political Economy; Principles of Political Economy; A Layman's Study of the English Bible Considered in ts Literary and Secular Aspects; and Gleanings From a Literary Life. He died Jan. 22, 1890, in Boston, Mass.