knowledge, which facilitated its application in libraries’ catalogs. Harris proposed a practical system of rules for the classification going from the generic to the specific. Those rules included main divisions, ultimate divisions, appendixes, and hybrids. The problem with Bacon’s approach was the difficulty to limit all knowledge within a restricted classification. Conversely, Harris suggested that content is predominant in minor divisions and sections, while form is the “guiding principle” in the main divisions. Works Besides voluminous reports on educational matters, many papers contributed to the Proceedings of the American Social Science Association, and various compilations edited by him, his publications include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889) The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889) Hegel's Logic: a Critical Exposition (1890) A. Bronson Alcott, his Life and Philosophy (with F. B. Sanborn) (1893) Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898) Elementary Education (Monographs on Education in the United States; vol. 1.) (1900; second edition, 1904) The School City (1906) The Philosophy of Education (1906) See also American philosophy List of American philosophers Anna Brackett, associate who later became the first woman principal of a teacher's college References Further reading Curti, Merle. The Social Ideas of American Educators (1935) pp 310–47 McCluskey, Neil Gerard. Public Schools and Moral Education: The Influence of Horace Mann, William Torrey Harris, and John Dewey (Columbia University Press, 1958) online Mosier, Richard D. "The educational philosophy of Wíllíam T. Harrís." Peabody journal of education (1951) 29#1 pp: 24-33. The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Feb. 26, 1948), pp. 121–133 External links William Torrey Harris Papers finding aid at the St. Louis Public Library The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. I, Nos. 1-4, 1867, Harris as editor. 1835 births 1909 deaths 19th-century American philosophers American lexicographers American non-fiction writers Philosophers from Connecticut Schoolteachers from Missouri People from Killingly, Connecticut Phillips Academy alumni Transcendentalism United States Bureau of Education people 19th-century American educators 19th-century lexicographers