Hewit, Augustine Francis

Roman Catholic; b. at Fairfield, Conn., Nov. 27, 1820; graduated at Amherst College, Amherst, Ma ., 1839; was ordained in the Roman-Catholic Church, March 25, 1847; vice-principal of Cathedral Collegiate Institute, Charleston, S. C, 1847-49; mi ionary (i.e., engaged in preaching mi ions at large in parochial churches), 1851-65; since 1865 has been profe or in the Paulist Seminary, New-York City. He is the author of Memoir of Rev. Francis A. Baker, New York, 1865; Problems of the Age. With Studies in St. Augustine, and on Kindred Topics, 1868; Light on Darkne , a Treatise on the Obscure Night of the Soul, 1871; The King's Highway, or the Catholic Church the Way of Salvation as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, 1874, 2d ed. 1879. College, Amherst, Ma ., 1866), Presbyterian; b. at Bethel, Conn., Dec. 29, 1798; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1820; and after studying theology under Rev. William Andrews and Bennet Tyler, D.D., from 1821 to 1823, was pastor (Congregational) at Kent, Conn., 1824-29, and at Litchfield, 1829-36. From 1836 to 1844 he was profe or of theology in Western Reserve College, Ohio; until 1852 in Auburn (Presbyterian) Theological Seminary, N.Y.; until 1866 was profe or of mental and moral science, and vice president, of Union College; until 1868 president. He then resigned, and has since lived in literary retirement at Amherst, Ma . He is the author of Rational Psychology, New York, 1849; A System of Moral Science, 1853, revised ed. 1880; Empirical Psychology, 1854, revised ed. 1882; Rational Cosmology, 1858; Creator and Creation, 1872; Humanity Immortal, 1872; Logic of Reason, 1875.