Cook, JOSEPH — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Cook, JOSEPH, lecturer and author, born at Ticonderoga, New York, in 1838, graduated at Harvard and Andover, and after three years' preaching went to Europe in 1871, where he studied in Germany, and made a tour of the Mediterranean countries. In 1873 he commenced a series of 'Monday Lectures' in Boston, which, endeavouring to harmonise science and religion, and discussing social and political questions, became very popular; and in 1880 he began an extended lecturing tour around the world. Besides his lectures, he has published a number of works on such subjects as Biology (1877), Heredity (1878), Marriage (1878), Labor (1879), Socialism (1880), &c.