Carus
PAUL, an American journalist and philosophical writer; born at Ilsenburg, Germany, July 18, 1852. He was educated at Strassburg and Tübingen, but most of his life work was done in Chicago. There he was editor of the "Open Court" and the "Monist." He was a prolific and able writer on philosophical and religious themes, from the standpoint of a pronounced freethinker. His publications include "The Soul of Man" (1891), "Monism and Meliorism" (1891), "The Religion of Science" (1893), "God:
An Inquiry into Man's Highest Ideals" (1908), "The Mechanistic Theory and the Non-Mechanical" (1913), "Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism" (1914). He died at La Salle, Ill., Feb. 11, 1919.
ENRICO CARUSO