Morison, JAMES COTTER

Morison, JAMES COTTER, author and Positivist, was born in 1832, and educated at Highgate grammar-school and Lincoln College, Oxford. His first work was his masterpiece, The Life and Times of St Bernard (1863). His latest, The Service of Man, an Essay towards the Religion of the Future (1886), attracted much attention, but it was commenced when sickness had already seized him, and it does not adequately represent his views. He was one of the founders and first proprietors of the Fortnightly Review. His intellectual gifts were associated with a most genial and kindly nature; he was reputed one of the best talkers of his time in French as well as English, and had long projected a work on the history of Louis XIV.'s reign, but owing to ill-health it was never fairly begun. He died February 26, 1888.