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Up for sale a RARE! "Presbyterian Scholar" Howard Crosby Hand Written Letter Dated 1882. There is a tear along the fold of the document not affecting the content.
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Howard Crosby (27 February 1826 – 29 March 1891) was
an American
Presbyterian preacher, scholar and professor, great-grandson of Judge Joseph
Crosby of Massachusetts and of Gen. William Floyd
of New York, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence,, and the father of Ernest Howard Crosby, and a relative of Fanny Crosby.
Crosby was also a descendant of Rip Van Dam
and Matthias Nicoll. Crosby was born in New York City in 1826. He graduated in
1844 from New York University where he was one of the
founding fathers of the Gamma Chapter of the Delta Phi
Fraternity, and became professor of Greek at NYU in 1851. In 1859, he was
appointed professor of Greek at Rutgers
College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, where two years
later he was ordained pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick. From 1863 until his death he
was pastor of Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York. From 1870 to 1881
Crosby was chancellor of New York University, then known as the
University of the City of New York. He was one of the American revisers of the
English version of the New Testament. Crosby took a prominent part in politics.
He urged to excise reform and opposed total abstinence. He was one of the
founders and the first president of the New York Society for the Prevention of
Crime, and pleaded for better management of Indian affairs and international
copyright. Among his publications are The Lands of the Moslem (1851),
Bible Companion (1870), Jesus: His Life and Works (1871), True Temperance
Reform (1879), True Humanity of Christ (1880), and commentaries on the book of
Joshua (1875), Nehemiah (1877) and the New Testament (1885). He was also president of
the American Philological Association and in 1871 gave a
presidential address, excerpted in the Proceedings of the American Philological
Association. "Linguistics or philology may be considered either as a
science or as a philosophy. Under the first aspect we may gain some idea of its
extent by thinking of the vast number of languages which are to be
investigated, not only those now spoken, but also many of which we have but the
fossils. It touches here psychology and history, and enables us to know the
unseen. A linguistic criticism is the source of all true commentary. By
philology we can reconstruct prehistoric man, and read the history of times
before the Olympiads and Nabonassar. Languages are never lost. By this science,
the original unity of the human race is already nearly proved….Again philology
as a philosophy speculates on the value of language to man, and its relations
to his mind. These speculations are not to be confounded with the facts of the
science….Every profound thinker has found himself fettered by language. Hence
disputes and misunderstandings have arisen. Also in poetry, in devotion, in
music, language is shown to be imperfect; it can never be made sufficient for
the whole realm of thought. Man in his development, must have a nobler and
fuller language than he has to-day. This may be in a new creation with
spiritual bodies." The President, in conclusion, referred to the field of
American languages as especially open to the researches of the Association,
suggesting its division into sections and the organization of local branches
(Crosby 1871: 8, quotation marks in the original). From 1872 to 1880 Crosby was
a member of the New Testament Company of the American Revision Committee. Crosby
married Margaret Evertson Givan, a daughter of John Givan and Mary Ann
Evertson, she a granddaughter of Jacob Evertson of Amenia, New
York.
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