ROYCE, Josiah, American philosopher and educator: h. Grass Valley, Nevada County, Cal., 20 Nov. 1855; d. Cambridge, Mass., 14 Sept. 1916. Graduated (1875) at the University of California, he studied also at Leipzig and Gottingen (1876) and the Johns Hopkins Uni versity (1877-78), and in 1878-82 was instructor in English in the University of California. From 1882 to 1885 he was instructor in philos ophy at Harvard, in 1885 was appointed assist ant professor, and in 1892 was elected to the professorship of the history of philosophy, which he still retains. His views are very sim ilar to those of T. H. Green
the great English representative of the eo-Kantian or Neo-Hegelian movement, and his position may be studied in the historico-critical work,
'California from the Conquest to the Vigilance Committee of 1856' (1886), and 'The Feud of Oakfield Creek' (1887), a work of fiction, he has written 'A Primer of Logical Analysis' (1:•:1) ; 'The Religious Aspect of Philosophy' (1885) ; 'The Conception of God' (1897) ; 'Studies of Good and Evil' (1898) ; 'The Con ception of Immortality' (1900; Ingersoll lec ture on immortality, 1899) ; 'The World and the Individual' (1900-01; Gifford lectures, 1899 1900) ; 'Outlines of Psychology> (1903) ; 'Her bert Spencer' (1904); 'Philosophy of Loyalty' (1908) ; 'William James and other Essays on the Philosophy of Life' (1911) ; 'Sources of Religious Might> (1912) ; 'The Problem of Christianity' (2 vols., 1913) ; 'War and In surance' (1914) ; 'The Hope of the Great Com munity> (1917).