Hermann, Alexander

magician, was born in Paris, France, Feb. 10, 1844, his father being a physician whose pastime was magic. His brother, Carl H., was also proficient in sleight-of-hand performances, and appeared profe ionally before he was 21 years of age. This brother took Alexander to Vienna with him in 1856, taught him the art, and the two travelled over Europe, performing with great succe . They came to America in 1861, on a profe ional tour; Carl subsequently returned to Europe, but Alexander remained and became a citizen of the U. S. He travelled all over the world, profe ionally, and had few equals in the "black art." Died Dec. 17, 1896. Her'mansville, in Michigan , a post-village of Menominee co., on C. & N. W. and M., St. P. & S. St. M. R. Rs. Pop . (1897) about 780. Hermeʼsianism, n. (Ch. His.) The method of religious inquiry taught by George Hermes, a profe or of Theology at Rome, born April 22, 1775; died May 26, 1831. He taught that reason must first be exercised in establishing a divine revelation and the claims of the Church of Rome infallibly to inter pert its teaching. Reason then itself required an implicit acceptance of all the doctrines of the church. These views he published in an Introduction to Christian-Catholic Theology (1819). Against this the Pope i ued a brief-Sept. 26, 1835holding it to be of infidel tendency. This was the occasion of a vehement controversy in Germany. Hermogeʼnians, n . pl . ( Eccl . Hist .) A semi-Christian sect, followers of Hermogenes, who lived toward the end of the 2d century. They believed matter to be the root of all evil, yet that from it was formed everything in the world, the human soul not excepted. Hermosillo ( ār - mo-sel'yo), a city of Mexico, State of Sonora, on a river of same name, 90 m. N. of Guaymas. It is the entrepôt of a considerable trade with the coast. Pop . (1897) 15,250. Herodote'an, a . Pertaining to Hero dot us, the Greek historian, of the 5th century B.C.