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James was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wooster, Ohio in 1877. After studies at the University of Leipzig from 1882–84, he achieved his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 1877.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, "Hyslop, James Henry" ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Press, 1966), 470.</ref><
James was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wooster, Ohio in 1877. After studies at the University of Leipzig from 1882–84, he achieved his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 1877.<ref>Boris de Zirkoff, "Hyslop, James Henry" ''H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings'' Volume I (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Press, 1966), 470.</ref><


On October 1, 1891, he married Mary Fry Hall (1859-1900) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the First Presbyterian Church.<ref>U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970 for James Harvey Hyslop.</ref> He had met her in Germany. She died on October 5, 1900, leaving three young children &ndash; a son George Hall, and two daughters, Mary Winifred and Beatrice Fry.<ref></ref>
On October 1, 1891, he married Mary Fry Hall (1859-1900) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the First Presbyterian Church.<ref>U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970 for James Harvey Hyslop.</ref> He had met her in Germany. She died on October 5, 1900, leaving three young children &ndash; a son George Hall, and two daughters, Mary Winifred and Beatrice Fry.<ref>United States Federal Census for 1900, 1910, 1920.</ref><ref>1915 New York Census.</ref>


== Academic career ==
== Academic career ==

Revision as of 03:34, 17 May 2020

James. H. Hyslop (August 18, 1854 – June 17, 1920) was an American psychologist and psychic researcher. He was probably the J. Hyslop who was one of the Founders of the Theosophical Society.

Personal life

James Hervey Hyslop was born on August 18, 1854 in Xenia, Ohio as the son of Robert Hyslop and his wife Martha (or Margarette).

James was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wooster, Ohio in 1877. After studies at the University of Leipzig from 1882–84, he achieved his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University in 1877.[1]<

On October 1, 1891, he married Mary Fry Hall (1859-1900) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the First Presbyterian Church.[2] He had met her in Germany. She died on October 5, 1900, leaving three young children – a son George Hall, and two daughters, Mary Winifred and Beatrice Fry.[3][4]

Academic career

Hyslop's first academic position was as an instructor in Philosophy in Lake Forest University in Illinois during 1880–82 and 1884–85. He became the head of Department of Philosophy in Smith College during 1885–86, and then served as a faculty member in Bucknell University in Lewisburgh, Pennsylvania during 1888–89. From 1889–91 he worked as a tutor in philosophy, ethics and psychology. He completed his career at Columbia University, teaching ethics and logic from 1891–1902.

In 1903 he received an honorary degree (LL.D) from the University of Wooster where he had been awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1877.[5]

Spiritualism and psychic research

Some of these experiences were personal in nature:

In 1898-99 a series of sittings [with Boston medium Mrs. Leonora Piper] were held at which Mr. Hyslop, father of Professor J. H. Hyslop, was the professed communicator...

Professor Hyslop himself is satisfied that he has actually been in communication with his father.[6]Weston D. Payley, "Preface" to James H. Hyslop - X His Book: A Cross Reference Record by Gertrude Ogden Tubby. York, Pa.: The York printing company, 1929. Available at Internet Archive.</ref>

Connections to the Theosophical Society

Founding of the Society

At the meetings on September 8 and October 16, 1875, a J. Hyslop was present at the meetings when the Theosophical Society was founded in New York. No more precise identification of this person was made by early Theosophists, especially since Hyslop the Founder quickly lost interest in the Society. James Hervey Hyslop would have been 21 years old, attending college in Ohio, but it is not impossible that he is the same individual. Theosophical historians Boris de Zirkoff and Walter A. Carrithers, Jr. believed the two characters to be one and the same.

Writings

Professor Hyslop was a prolific writer. William James, Richard Hodgson and Oliver Lodge and others criticized some of his books not for their content but for their convoluted style and high degree of detail.

Periodicals and proceedings

Hyslop published many reviews and articles in academic journals, and iin the Proceedings on the Society for Psychical Research.

Textbooks and academic works

  • Elements of Logic. 1892.
  • Hume's Treatise of Morals: And Selections from the Treatise of the Passions. 1893.
  • Anomalies in Logic. 1894.
  • Freedom, Responsibility and Punishment. 1894.
  • Elements of Ethics. 1895.
  • Logic and Argument. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Available at Internet Archive.
  • The Ethics of the Greek Philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. 1903.
  • Problems of Philosophy. 1905.

Psychical research

  • The Wants of Psychical Research. 1900.
  • A Further Record of Observations of Certain Trance Phenomena. 1901.
  • he Mental State of The Dead: A Limitation to Psychical Research. World Today, 1905.
  • Science and A Future Life. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1905. Available at Internet Archive.
  • Borderland of Psychical Research. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1906. Available at Internet Archive.
  • Enigmas of Psychical Research. 1906.
  • Psychical Research and the Resurrection. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1908. Available at Internet Archive.
  • Psychical Research and Survival. 1913.
  • The Doris Case of Multiple Personality (1915–1917). With Walter Franklin Prince.
  • Life After Death. Problems of the Future Life and Its Nature. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1918. Available at Internet Archive.
  • Contact with the Other World; the Latest Evidence as to Communication with the Dead. New York: The Century Company, 1919.

Available at Internet Archive.

Poetry

  • Poems, Original and Translations. 1915.

Additional resources

  • Tubby, Gertrude Ogden. James H. Hyslop - X His Book: A Cross Reference Record. York, Pa.: The York printing company, 1929. Available at Internet Archive. Gertrude Ogden Tubby was Hyslop's secretary and lived with the family, according to the 1915 New York Census.

Notes

  1. ↑ Boris de Zirkoff, "Hyslop, James Henry" H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings Volume I (Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Press, 1966), 470.
  2. ↑ U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970 for James Harvey Hyslop.
  3. ↑ United States Federal Census for 1900, 1910, 1920.
  4. ↑ 1915 New York Census.
  5. ↑ U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935. University of Wooster, Ohio, 1916.
  6. ↑ Frank Podmore "The Case of Mrs. Piper" in The Naturalization of the Supernatural (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908), 321. Available at Internet Archive.

    Hyslop made a major contribution to the literature of psychical research:

    Professor Hyslop, had, with wonderful persistence, patience and precision, placed on record a vast amount of experimental material, fully accredited and exactly sustained in accordance with the standards of evidence. His data, together with his detailed commentaries and observations, are a matter of public record. What he thus accomplished is his greatest monument; and no marble shaft could be more imperishable.

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