Cook, Joseph

Congregational licentiate, b. at Ticonderoga, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1838; graduated at Harvard College 1865, and at And over Theological Seminary 1868; supplied vacant pulpits, and continued studies, 1868-70; acting pastor First (Congregational) Church, Lynn, Ma ., 1870-71 not ordained; studied under Tholuck and Miiller, and travelled in Europe, 1871-73; began lecturing, 1874; delivered the Monday Lectures upon scientific, philosophic, religious, and social topics, in Boston during the winter of each succe ive year from 1875 till 1880; in England, Italy, India, Japan, and Australia, as lecturer, 1880-82; resumed his Monday Lectures in 1883. His publications consist of his lectures, and these have been widely circulated: Biology, Boston, 1877 (16th ed.); Transcendentalism, 1877 (13th ed.); Orthodoxy, 1877 (7th ed.); Conscience, 1878; Heredity, 1878; Marriage, 1878; Labor, 1879; Socialism, 1880; Occident, 1884; Orient, 1886.