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Mahan, Asa

educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Nov. 9, 1800, in Vernon, N. Y. He was a congregational clergyman and educator, president of Adrian college, 1860-71, and after the latter date resident in England. He was the author of Critical History of Philosophy; The Science of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic; Theism and Anti-Theism in Their Relations to Science; and Critical History of the American Civil War. He died April 4, 1889, in England.

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