MORD'VINS. A mixed Plinio-Turkish people numbering about 1,000,000. living in the heart of Russia between the and Oka. lu they 1.639 meters, and are brachyeephalie (cephalic index. 83.8). They are finely built, and have dark habt—darker in the south than in the north—and blue eyes. is their occupation. and they are excellent carpenters and woodworkers. of wooden vessels and other objects, and they are noted for bee-keep Nominally the MordvillS have accepted Christianity, but ninny cus toms are preserved them. The women especially preserve their old national costume, embroidered jackets and skirts. an elabo rate coiffure, and necklaces.
MORE, mor. HANNAH (1745-1833). An More, mor. HANNAH (1745-1833). An lish author, born at, Stapleton, near Bristol, February 2, 1745. She was well educated, scrib bled essays and verse as a and wrote a pas toral drama. She became with Gar rick, Burke, Reynolds, and Dr. Johnson, and was by Garriek to write two (1777) and The Fatal Falsehood (1779), both of which met with sonic success. About 1780 she withdrew from society, built a at Cowslip Green, ten miles from Bristol, and moral and works. Sacred Dramas (1782) were succeeded by the extensively road Thoughts on the Importance of the Man n, r..; of the Great to General Society (17SS). With the aid of her sisters she established Sun day-schools in the districts. A sue
eessful tract called Polities (1793) led to the famous ('leap Vepository Tracts (1793 98), of which two millions were circulated the first year. Her novel Orlebs in ,'carch of a Wife (1809) ran editions the first year, and was still more popular in the United States. She (lied at. Clifton. September 7, 1833. Consult: Life of Hannah More, by W. Roberts (3d ed. 1838), and by 11. Thompson (1838): also Marion Harland, Literary Hearth Hannah More (New York, 1900), MORE, 11Emil- (1614-87). An theo He was horn at Grantham. Lincoln sldre, of Calvinist parents. but became a warm adherent Ilf the Church of After some years at Eton lie went to Christ's Cam where he pursued the study of philosophy, especially the Platonic writers. About 1639 he took holy orders and lived henceforth a life within the courts of his all preferments. Ills numerous works represent the mysticism of the Platonists His poetns, the of the Soul," were collected and published :is Philosophical Pornis (0;17 ). The characteristie principles of his philosophy an. to be found in the flirine Dialoynes 668). Complete editions of ()pi ra Thmlogira appeared in 1675, and of his opera Pitiiosophica in 1678. Consult his /.if, by Ward 1 London. 1711H, and an analysis of his life and works in Prineipal Tullooll", National Theology, vol. ill. I Ed11111111.01.