Highbinder

A ruffian; a member of a secret society among the Chinese whose object is thought to be blackmailing. High'er Criticism. ( Liter .) Two forms of criticism are recognized in modern letters: the Lower Criticism, which deals mainly with the text of any work of literature, and the Higher Criticism, which considers also the questions of its origin, history, literary form, probable authenticity, ., judging it from all available points of view. These terms are applied to the study of all ancient literature. A case in illustration of the H. C. is the question whether the Iliad was written by Homer, or is a compilation of more ancient lays; while the question as to the proper employment of one or another word is an instance of the lower criticism. As now most commonly employed, however, the term is applied to Biblical criticism. It seeks to discover when and under what circumstances the books of the Bible were written; whether they were the work of the authors to whom they are attributed; whether they agree internally and with one another; whether additions may have been made to them or more ancient materials incorporated in them; and to what extent they are confirmed or discredited by the evidence of ancient monuments and contemporary history. An instance of the H. C. is the attempt to explain the discrepancy between the accounts of the same events in Kings and Chronicles. Another is the effort to discover what evidence there is in favor of David's authorship of the Psalms. These are a few among the many ques Virginia campaign. Killed in action near Petersburg, April 2, 1865. BENJAMIN HARVEY, politician, born in Jasper county, Ga., Sept. 14, 1823; graduated from the State University of Georgia in 1844; studied law, and was admitted to the bar, (1845). He was active both in State and national politics; was elected a member of the Georgia legislature (1851); earnestly advocated the Union cause, but afterward became a prominent supporter of sece ion; elected (Feb. 4, 1861), to the Confederate House and in the autumn of the same year to the Confederate Senate, serving in that body till the end of the war. He was taken prisoner at his home in Georgia, in May, 1865, and confined, until the July following, in Fort Lafayette, New York. After the war he wrote Notes on the Situation , which were in opposition to the reconstruction policy of Congre ; also i ued an Addre to the People of Georgia , which was severely censured; supported the Greeley ticket in 1872; was elected U. S. Senator for Georgia, for a full term (1877-83), but died, before its expiration, on August 16, 1882. Hill, DANIEL HARVEY, soldier, born in York county, S. C., July 12, 1821; graduated at West Point (1842), and for gallant services in the Mexican War was presented by his native State with a sword of honor; resigned his commi ion (1849), accepting the chair of mathematics in Washington College, Virginia (1854), and in the same year that of mathematics and engineering in Davidson College, North Carolina, holding the latter position until 1859. In the Civil War he entered the Confederate army as colonel, attaining the rank of major-general. At the close of the war he engaged in journalism, and published The Land We Love , a monthly magazine. He was the author of: Elements of Algebra ; Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount, . Was president of the University of Kansas (1877), and of the Military and Agricultural College at Milledgeville, Ga. (1887). Died Sept. 25, 1889. Hill, DAVID BENNETT, lawyer and Democratic politi cian, was born at Havana, Schuyler county, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1844; removed to Elmira (1862); studied law and was admitted to the bar (1864), entering into local politics. He was a member of the A embly (1869–71); alderman of Elmira (1881) and mayor of that city (1882); lieutenant-governor of New York (1882) and acting governor after Jan. 6, 1885, following Grover Cleveland's election to the Presidency; was governor of New York two succe ive terms (1885-91) and U. S Senator from 1891 to 1897. In 1894 Mr. H. again ran for governor of New York, without resigning his seat in the Senate, and was signally defeated. He has been credited with Presidential aspirations, but these have never approached realization. His democracy is of the most uncompromising character and his seemingly commonplace a ertion, "I am a Democrat, was for some occult reason accepted by many of his party as a rallying cry. In 1896 Mr. H. opposed the Free Silver wing of his po ty at their national convention in Chicago, and during the campaign withheld his support from the national ticket there nominated, thus apparently separating himself from the rank and file of Democracy. He resides and practices law at Albany. Hill, DAVID JAYNE, educator and author, born at Plain field, N. J., June 10, 1850; educated at Bucknell University; became profe or of Rhetoric there, and president (1879-1888); and in the latter year president of the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Science of Rhetoric ; Life of Washington Irving: Princi ples and Fallacies of Socialism; The Elements of Psychology, and various other works; edited Jevon's Logic (New York, 1884).