FLINT

Robert, Scottish the clog i an and philosopher, born near Dumfries in 1838, died in 1910. Educated at Glasgow University, he became minister at Aberdeen in 1859 and of Kilconqukar in 1862. In 1864 he was appointed to the chair of moral philoBophy at St. Andrews University, and in 1876 to that of divinity at Edinburgh University. He was Stone lecturer at Princeton University in 1880, and Croall lecturer at Edinburgh in 1887-8. His works include: Christ?s Kingdom upon Earth (1865); Philosophy of History in Hurope (1874); Thetsm and Anti-theistic Theories (1877); and On rs YD Biblical, and other Subjects (1905).