Herbert Ernest Cushman (1865-1944) A.M., Ph.D., was an American philosopher. He was a

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Biography

Herbert Ernest Cushman was born in

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on October 24, 1865. He attended Lewiston High School, then earned A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees at

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, and an A.B. and honorary LL.D. at

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. He married Abby Brewster Corbin in 1904, and they had four children. He wrote ''A Beginner's History of Philosophy'' and translated Wilhelm Windelband's ''History Of Ancient Philosophy'' into English. He died in West Newton, Massachusetts on December 16, 1944.

Selected works

''History Of Ancient Philosophy''
(translation, 1899) * '' The Truth in Christian Science'' (lecture, 1902)
''What is Christianity?''
(lecture, 1904)
''A Beginner's History of Philosophy''
(1910; reprinted 1918)

References

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