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THE loss of Prof. G. Dawes Hicks, on February 16, at the age of seventy-eight, will be felt, not only by the wide circle of his personal acquaintance, but also by all who have at heart the interest of philosophy in Great Britain. Friends and students will cherish the memory of his kindly and affectionate nature, his simplicity of heart, his unfailing courtesy, the generous hospitality of his house and table, and his readiness to place his store of learning and the rich resources of his library at the disposal of all students of the problems that engrossed his life. They will not easily forget the short spare figure of the teacher whose frail appearance veiled an iron constitution, that enabled him to excel as a climber and to carry out the duties of his London chair from his house in Cambridge with unabated efficiency. He was professor of philosophy in University College, London, during 1904–28, and lectured on psychology at Cambridge regularly. His energy both of body and mind was amazing. Even when stricken with illness and the sorrow of his wife's death his high courage never failed him; in his last three years he published his Hibbert Lectures on the “Philosophical Basis of Theism” and a volume of noteworthy essays, and persisted in his work as sub-edit or of the Hibbert Journal from his sick-bed to the very end. He had been largely responsible for founding the Journal in 1901–2.
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DE BURGH, W. Prof. G. Dawes Hicks, F.B.A. Nature 147, 381–382 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147381a0
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