LARKED, Kan., city and county-seat of Pawnee County, at the junction of the Arkan sas and Pawnee rivers, 240 miles southwest of Topeka. It is on the Missouri Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads, and is the shipping centre of a large farming and stock-raising country. It has flour mills, found ries, an ice factory, grain elevators, machine shops and other industries and has electric light and waterworks. The State hospital for the insane is located here. It contains also the Lamed Sanitarium, a hospital, city library and old Fort Lamed. Military Reservation and fort. The city is governed by a mayor and council elected every two years. Pop. 2,511.
LAROMIGUIkRE, la'roYmE'gyar', Pierre, French philosopher: b. Livignac, 3 Nov. 1756; d. Paris, 12 Aug. 1837. He studied under Condillac, and became professor of philosophy at Toulouse, but being censured by Parliament for his publication of a treatise on taxation he went to Paris, where he was favorably received. He was appointed professor of logic in the ficole Normale and lecturer at the Pry tanee, and in 1811 professor of the faculty of letters in the University of Paris. He was
a member of the Tribunate in 1799. In 1833 he was elected a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. His theories as a philosopher led him to distinguish clearly between the psychologic phenomena which may be traced to physical causes and the action of the soul itself, and he developed the theory of attention beyond even his master, Condillac, and others who influenced his views, Destutt de Tracy and Cabanis among them. He main tained that the soul is free in its choice and therefore immortal. While not distinctively an originator, but rather a developer of philo sophic theory, he possessed a faculty for clear and accurate statement so that his work crys talizes not only the results of his own ob servations but those of others who influenced his thought. Author of 'Projet d'elements de metaphysique) (1793) ; 'Les Paradoxes de Con dillac) (1805) ; 'Lecons de philosophie' (1815-18).