16 Facts About Henry More

Henry More was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College.

Henry More took his BA in 1635, his MA in 1639, and immediately afterwards became a fellow of his college, turning down all other positions that were offered.

Henry More taught many notable pupils, including Anne Finch, sister of Heneage Finch, subsequently Earl of Nottingham.

Henry More's later became Lady Conway, and at her country seat at Ragley in Warwickshire, More would spend "a considerable part of his time.

Henry More's became the friend not only of More and William Penn, but of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont and Valentine Greatrakes, mystical thaumaturgists of the 17th-century.

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Henry More attempted to use the details of 17th-century mechanical philosophy—as developed by Rene Descartes—to establish the existence of immaterial substance.

Henry More rejected Cartesian dualism on the following grounds: "It would be easier for me to attribute matter and extension to the soul, than to attribute to an immaterial thing the capacity to move and be moved by the body.

Henry More appears to be the origin of the still-popular slur against medieval Scholasticism that it engaged in useless speculative debates, such as how many angels might dance on the head of a pin, in the second chapter of The Immortality of the Soul.

Quotation from Henry More is used as the epigraph of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "The Over-soul".

Henry More is believed to have written Philosophiae Teutonicae Censura, 1670, a criticism of the theosophy of Jacob Boehme; and to have edited Joseph Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus, 1681.

Henry More certainly contributed largely to the volume, and wrote many of the annotations to Glanvill's Lux Orientalis, 1682.

Henry More agreed with Glanvill on belief in witchcraft and apparitions.

Several letters from More to John Worthington are printed in Worthington's Diary, and some Letters Philosophical and Moral between John Norris and Henry More are added to Norris's Theory and Regulation of Love, 1688.

Henry More issued complete editions of his works, his Opera theologica in 1675, and his Opera philosophica in 1678.

John Cockshutt of the Inner Temple had left a legacy of £300 to Henry More to have three of his principal pieces translated into Latin; and Henry More complied with the terms of the legacy by translating into Latin many more of his English works.

Main authorities for Henry More's life are Richard Ward's Life; the prefatio generalissima prefixed to his Opera omnia (1679); and an account of his writings in an Apology published in 1664.