Soury

(Auguste Jules), French philosopher, b. Paris, 1842. In ’65 he became librarian at the Bibliothèque Nation ale . He has contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes , Revue Nouvelle , and other journals, and has published important works on The Bible and Archæology , ’72; Historical Studies on Religions , ’77; E ays of Religious Criticism , ’78; Jesus and the Gospels , ’78, a work in which he maintains that Jesus suffered from cerebral affection, and which has been translated into English, together with an e ay on The Religion of Israel from his Historical Studies . Studies of Psychology , ’79, indicated a new direction in M. Soury’s Free thought. He has since written A Breviary of the History of Materialism , ’80; Naturalist Theories of the World and of Life in Antiquity , ’81; Natural Philosophy , ’82; Contemporary Psychological Doctrines , ’83. He has translated Noeldeke’s Literary History of the Old Testament , 73; Haeckel’s Proofs of Evolution , ’79; and Preyer’s Elements of General Physiology , ’84.