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Adolphe Garnier, a French eclectic philosopher, born in Paris, March 27, 1801, died in May, 18G4. He aided Jouffroy in translating the works of Thomas Reid, was in 1827 appointed professor of philosophy in the college at Versailles, and afterward promoted to a chair in Paris. He meanwhile published his Precis de psychologies and a complete edition of the philosophical writings of Descartes. In 1838 he succeeded Jouffroy as lecturer on philosophy at the Sorbonne, and in the following year produced his Comparaison de la psycholo-gie et de la phrenologie. He published in 1850 a Traite de morale sociale, and in 1853 a Traite des facultes de Vdme, which won a prize from the French academy. His last work, De la morale dam V antiquite, was published in 1865, with an introduction by Prevost-Paradol.
 
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