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He was educated at Yale University , Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University . He became Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University in 1941.


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  • The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science. A Historical and Critical Essay (1925)

  • The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton (1925)

  • Religion In An Age Of Science (1930)

  • Principles and Problems of Right Thinking (1931)

  • The English Philosophers, from Bacon to Mill (1939)

  • Types Of Religious Philosophy (1939)

  • The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (1955)

  • Man Seeks the Divine: A Study in the History and Comparison of Religions (1957)

  • In Search Of Philosophic Understanding (1965)