Psychology, or, A view of the human soul, including anthropology : adapted for the use of colleges / By Rev. Frederick A. Rauch.

  • Rauch, Friedrich August, 1806-1841.
Date:
[1850?]
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Credit: Psychology, or, A view of the human soul, including anthropology : adapted for the use of colleges / By Rev. Frederick A. Rauch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PRELIMINARY NOTICE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The amiable and highly gifted author of the following work, had not quite completed his revision of it for the second edition, when it pleased God in his wise and righteous sovereignty, to take him away by death. In the circumstances, it seems proper to prefix here a few statements with regard to his life and character. Dr. Rauch was a native of Kirchbracht, in the Grand Dutchy of Hesse Darmstadt, born July 27, 1806. His father, a minister be- longing before the “Union” to the Reformed Church, still lives to mourn over the tidings of his son’s untimely decease. He is an or- thodox and diligent pastor, in the neighborhood of Frankfort, on the Maine. At the age of eighteen, Dr. Rauch entered the University of Marburg, where he took his diploma in the year 1827. Afterwards he spent a year, as a student at Giessen ; and subsequently to this another year still, at Heidelbergh. Here he enjoyed, as it would seem, the special regard and favor of that aged giant in the sphere of mind, Charles Daub, since dead ; a man, who had followed Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, to the farthest bounds of speculation, with- out surrendering for a moment his firm hold upon the great ob- jects of faith ; resolutely facing the billows, as Tholuck has expressed it, and forcing his way through, where even Schleier- macher could save himself only by retreating towards the shore. For the memory of this man Dr. Rauch entertained always the highest veneration. Daub had fixed his eye upon him as a young man of more than common promise, who might be expected to do good service to the cause of science, in the department to which he wished to consecrate his life. On quitting Heidelberg, he spent a year again at Giessen, as professor extraordinarius; at the end of which time, he received an appointment to a regular pro- fessorship in Heidelberg. Here however his fair prospects were suddenly covered with a dark cloud. In his lectures, he was sup- posed to have expressed himself with too much freedom with regard to government. Jealousy was awakened ; and it was con- sidered necessary, in the judgment of his friends, that he should quit the country. With a sorrowful heart accordingly, he came
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