A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Albee, John

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Albee, John, American writer. B. Apr. 3, 1833. Ed. Phillips Academy, Andover, and Harvard Divinity School. Mr. Albee abandoned the orthodox theology in which he had been trained for the liberal Theism or Pantheism of Emerson, and he wrote an admiring work on the master (Remembrances of Emerson, 1903). "Growth ends with the birth of creeds," he said (p. 95). He published various other volumes of prose and verse. D. Mar. 24, 1915.