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HARRIS, LUKE, founder of the ”Brotherhood of the New Life,” born in Buckinghams.h.i.+re, a spiritualistic Socialist; his system founded on SWEDENBORGIANISM (q. v.) on the one hand and a form of communism on the other, with a scriptural Christianity spiritualised as backbone; the destiny of man he regards as angelhood, or a state of existence like that of G.o.d, in which the unity of s.e.x, or fatherhood and motherhood, meet in one; the late Laurence Oliphant and the late John Pulsford were among his disciples; _b_. 1823.
HARRISBURG (50), capital of Pennsylvania, is beautifully situated on the Susquehanna, 106 m. NW. of Philadelphia; the industries include extensive iron and steel works and a flouris.h.i.+ng lumber trade.
HARRISON, BENJAMIN. President of the United States and grandson of William Henry Harrison, a former President, born at North Bend, Ohio; started as a lawyer in Indianapolis, became an important functionary in the court of Indiana, and subsequently proved himself a brave and efficient commander during the Civil War; engaging actively in politics, he in 1880 became a United States Senator; as the nominee of the Protectionist and Republican party he won the Presidency against Cleveland, but at the election of 1892 the positions were reversed; in 1893 he became a professor in San Francisco; _b_. 1833.
HARRISON, FREDERIC, barrister, born in London, professor of Jurisprudence in the Inns of Court; author of articles contributed to Reviews and Essays, and of Lectures on a variety of current questions, historical, social, and religious, from the standpoint of the positivism of Auguste Comte, with his somewhat vague ”Religion of Humanity” is the author of ”Order and Progress,” the ”Choice of Books,” &c.; _b_. 1831.
HARRISON, JOHN, a celebrated mechanician, born at Foulby, Yorks.h.i.+re; was the first to invent a chronometer which, by its ingenious apparatus for compensating the disturbing effects caused by variations of climate, enabled mariners to determine longitude to within a distance of 18 m.; by this invention he won a prize of 20,000 offered by Government; amongst other things he invented the compensating _gridiron pendulum_, still in use (1693-1776).
HARRISON, WILLIAM, a noted historical writer, born in London; graduated at Cambridge, and after serving as chaplain to Lord Cobham, received the rectors.h.i.+p of Radwinter, in Ess.e.x; subsequently he became canon of Windsor; his fame rests on two celebrated historical works, ”Description of England,” an invaluable picture of social life and inst.i.tutions in Elizabethan times, and ”Description of Britain,” written for Holinshed's ”Chronicle” (1534-1593).
HARROGATE or HARROWGATE (14), a popular watering-place, prettily situated amid forest and moorland, in the West Riding of Yorks.h.i.+re, 20 m. NW. of York; it enjoys a wide repute for its sulphurous, saline, and chalybeate springs.
HARROW (6), a town of Middles.e.x, built on an eminence 200 ft. high, 12 m. from St. Paul's, London; its church, St. Mary's, founded by Lanfranc, is a Gothic structure of great architectural interest. Harrow School, a celebrated public school, was founded in 1571 for the free education of 30 poor boys of the parish, but subsequently opened its doors to ”foreigners,” and now numbers upwards of 500 pupils.
HARRY, BLIND, a famous Scottish minstrel who flourished in the 15th century; the few particulars of his life which have come down to us represent him as a blind and vagrant poet, living by reciting poems ”before princes and peers”; to him is attributed the celebrated poem, ”The Life of that n.o.ble Champion of Scotland, Sir William Wallace, Knight,” completed about 1488, a spirited, if partly apocryphal, account of Wallace, running to 11,861 lines in length.
HART, SOLOMON ALEXANDER, born at Plymouth; served as an engraver's apprentice in London; studied at the Royal Academy, and excelled in miniature painting; he became celebrated as a painter of historical scenes and characters, and in 1854 was appointed professor of Painting in the Royal Academy, and subsequently librarian; his works include ”Henry I. receiving intelligence of the Death of his Son,” ”Milton visiting Galileo in Prison,” ”Wolsey and Buckingham,” ”Lady Jane Grey in the Tower,” &c. (1806-1881).
HARTE, BRET, American humourist, born at Albany, New York; went to California at 15; tried various occupations, mining, school-mastering, printing, and literary sketching, when he got on the staff of a newspaper, and became eventually first editor of the _Overland Monthly_, in the columns of which he established his reputation as a humourist by the publication of the ”Heathen Chinee” and other humorous productions, such as ”The Luck of Roaring Camp”; he wields a prolific pen, and all he writes is of his own original coinage; _b_. 1839.
HARTFORD (80), the capital of Connecticut, U.S., on the Connecticut, 50 m. from its mouth and 112 m. NE. of New York; is handsomely laid out, and contains an imposing white marble capitol, Episcopalian and Congregational colleges, hospitals, libraries, &c.; is an important depot for the manufacture of firearms, iron-ware, tobacco, &c., and is an important banking and insurance centre.
HARTLEPOOL (65), a seaport of Durham, situated on a tongue of land which forms the Bay of Hartlepool, 4 m. N. of the Tees estuary; the chief industries are s.h.i.+pbuilding, cement works, and a s.h.i.+pping trade, chiefly in coal and iron. WEST HARTLEPOOL (43), lies on the opposite and south side of the bay, 1 m. distant, but practically forming one town with Hartlepool, and carries on a similar trade, but on a somewhat larger scale; the extensive docks, stretching between the two towns, cover an area of 300 acres.
HARTLEY, DAVID, an English philosopher and physician; wrote ”Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations”; ascribed sensation to vibration in the nerves, and applied the doctrine of the a.s.sociation of ideas to mental phenomena (1705-1757).
HARTMANN, a German philosopher, born at Berlin; established his fame by a work ent.i.tled the ”Philosophy of the Unconscious,” which rapidly pa.s.sed through nine editions; he has since written on pessimism, the moral and the religious consciousness, the philosophy of the beautiful, and spiritualism; he is the founder of a new school of philosophy, which professes to be a synthesis of that of Hegel and that of Schopenhauer, and to aim at the reconciliation of philosophic results with scientific; _b_. 1842.
HARTMANN, MORITZ, a German poet; had a keen sympathy with the liberal political ideas that prevailed in 1848, and which his poems contributed to foster, and on account of which he got into trouble (1821-1872).
HARTZENBUSCH, JUAN EUGENIO, Spanish dramatist, born at Madrid, of German extraction; was educated under the Jesuits, but abandoned his intention of joining the Church, took to literature, and was given a post in the National Library at Madrid; his dramas are fresh and vigorous, and enjoy a wide popularity; he rose to be Director of the National Library, and in 1852 was President of the Theatrical Council (1806-1880).
HARUS'PICES, among the Romans, soothsayers who affected to foretell future events by the inspection of the entrails of animals offered in sacrifice, as well as by study of abnormal phenomena.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, the oldest and premier educational inst.i.tution in the United States, is located at Cambridge, Ma.s.sachusetts, 3 m. W. of Boston; it is named after the Rev. John Harvard, a graduate of Cambridge, who by the bequest of his library and small fortune helped to launch the inst.i.tution in 1638; it was originally intended for the training of youths for the Puritan ministry, but it has during the present century been extended into a university of the first rank, under emanc.i.p.ation from all sectarian control; it has a student roll of about 3000, is splendidly equipped, and now richly endowed.