Hague
Hague names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hague ARNOLD, an American geologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARNOLD, an American geologist; born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 3, 1840; was graduated at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College in 1863 and then studied abroad. Returning to the United States he spent about 10 years in the West investigating the Comstock lode. In 1877 the government of Guatemala appointed him geologist, and he visited the centers of volcanic activity and the chief mining districts of that country. In the following year he was employed by the Chinese government to study the gold, lead and silver mines in northern China. In 1879, when the United States established the geological survey, he accepted a place in that bureau. His publications include "The Volcanoes of California, Oregon, and Washington Territories"; "The Volcanic Rocks of the Great Basin" (1884); "On the Development of Crystallization in the Igneous Rocks of Washoe" (1885); "Nevada, with Notes on the Geology of the District" (1885); "Atlas of the Yellowstone National Park" (1904), etc. THE HAGUE PEACE PALACE HA-HA an inlet of Saguenay river, in Chicoutimi co., Quebec, Canada, midway between Lake St. John and the St. Lawrence river; known also as Grande Bay. It is connected with Great and Little Ha-Ha Lakes by the Ha-Ha river; the bay is about 7 miles long, 1 mile wide, and 600 feet deep. HAHNEMANN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SAMUEL (hä'ne-män), the founder of HOMEOPATHY (q. v.); born in Meissen, Saxony, April 10, 1755. He entered the University of Leipsic at the age of 20; from Leipsic he proceeded to Vienna for clinical study; he then passed two years as physician and librarian to a nobleman residing in Transylvania; after which he entered and, in 1779, graduated at the University of Erlangen. During the following 10 years he practiced medicine and held several public appointments in Dresden and elsewhere, and then settled in a small village near Leipsic. His observation and practice had convinced him, not only of the uselessness, but also of the injurious character of the prevailing methods of treatment. Six years of study and investigations proved to him that in all instances the medicine which had cured produced a very similar condition in healthy persons to that it had relieved. This conclusion he published in an essay in "Hufeland's Journal" in 1796. It is in this essay that the principle of similia similibus curantur (similar things are cured by similar things) is first put forward by him, not as a theory but as a fact. His views at once met with vehement opposition. Apothecaries refused to dispense his prescriptions, and he was forced to give his medicine to his patients free of charge. This was an infringement of the privileges which German law had conferred on the apothecaries, and hence he was prosecuted in every town in which he attempted to settle from 1798 till 1810, when he returned to Leipsic. Two years afterward he was appointed a privat-docent of the university. At Leipsic he remained till 1821, when a successful prosecution by the apothecaries drove him from the city. Under the protection of the Duke of Anhalt-Köthen he retired to Köthen, where he became a center of attraction to numerous invalids in all parts of the world. He became known as one of the earliest advocates of hygiene. His book entitled "The Friend of Health" (1792) proves him to have been far in advance of his time in preventive medicine. Equally so was he in the treatment of the insane. He was also the author of several valuable papers on chemistry. He died in Paris, July 2, 1843. A statue of him was erected in Leipsic in 1851.
Hague THE (hag), the capital of the Netherlands
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THE (hag), the capital of the Netherlands, 2 miles from the North Sea and 15 N. N. W. of Rotterdam. It is one of the handsomest cities in the country, being intersected by canals and shady avenues of lime-trees, and having many fine public buildings and private houses. In the center of the city is the Vijver, or fish pond, to the S. of which stands the old castle of the counts of Holland. It consists of two courts, an outer and an inner; in this latter are the 13th-century Gothic knight's hall and the chambers in which the Dutch parliament holds its sittings. On one side of the outer court stands the gate tower, which was formerly a state prison, in which the brothers De Witt were confined till torn to pieces by the populace (1672). The most noteworthy public buildings and institutions are the picture gallery, with a splendid collection of works by native painters (Paul Potter's "Bull" and Rembrandt's "Lesson in Anatomy"); the royal library, with 200,000 volumes, 4,000 MSS., and collections of coins and gems; the municipal museum, with several Dutch pictures; the Museum Meermanno- Westreenen, containing a collection of early printed books; the ethnographic museum, rich in Chinese and Japanese objects; the town-house; and the royal palaces. The church of St. James is the most important ecclesiastical edifice; it dates from the 14th century, and is Gothic in style. The Hague is the seat of several learned societies, as the Indian Society and the Institute for the Language, Land, and People of the Dutch Indies. Among the numerous statues are those of William I. (two in number), William II., Spinoza, Bernhard of Saxe- Weimar, and the monument which commemorates the deliverance from the French. Near the town is the beautiful pleasure park called "The Wood" in which stands a royal residence (1647) with the magnificent so-called "Orange Hall." Ryswick, where the treaty of 1697 was signed, is in the immediate vicinity. The Hague is connected by beautiful roads with Scheveningen, a fashionable bathing place on the coast of the North Sea, which is incorporated municipally with The Hague. The city owes its importance mainly to the fact that it is the residence of the court and the capital of the country; but it has also considerable manufacturing industry, as iron founding, copper and lead smelting, cannon founding, printing, furniture and carriage making, and the manufacture of gold and silver lace. From 1250 a hunt- Counts of Holland, The ing lodge of the Hague did not acquire importance till the 16th century; in 1527 it became the seat of the supreme court in Holland, in 1584 the place of assembly of the States of Holland and of the States-general; and it was also the residence of the stadtholders. There, too, numerous treaties have been signed and diplomatic conferences held, especially the Triple Alliance of 1668 and that of 1717. Here also was held the International Peace Congress of 1899, and 1907, and the Hague Conference of 1907. A magnificent Peace Palace was erected for the meetings of the Peace Conference by Andrew Carnegie. Pop. (1918) 352,079.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 it called The Hague "the capital of the Netherlands" — in fact Amsterdam is the constitutional capital, while The Hague is the seat of government, court and parliament, a distinction now always spelled out. The Peace Palace pictured on the page, opened in 1913 for the Permanent Court of Arbitration, was joined in 1946 by the International Court of Justice, and the city has since become the world's judicial capital, home to the International Criminal Court (operating since 2002) and the tribunal that tried the crimes of the Yugoslav wars. The city itself grew from a genteel court town of a few hundred thousand to a metropolis of over half a million, survived Allied bombing of the Bezuidenhout district in March 1945, and now shows Paul Potter's "Bull" and Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson" in the Mauritshuis. Of the geologist Arnold Hague the entry is still accurate as far as it goes, though it does not record that he had already died, in 1917, four years before Collier's printed it.
Written for this edition, 2026.