1. William Hastie MA DD was a Scottish clergyman and theologian.
19 Facts About William Hastie
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William Hastie produced the first English translation of the Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven, by Immanuel Kant.
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William Hastie recovered from a ruinous libel case in Calcutta to become the Professor of Divinity at University of Glasgow.
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William Hastie was born on 7 July 1842 at Wanlockhead in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
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William Hastie further studied at the University of Glasgow in 1870 and 1871, under John Caird, Professor of Divinity.
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William Hastie studied further in the Netherlands and Germany and became fluent in German.
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In 1878 William Hastie was appointed principal of the General Assembly's Institution in Calcutta.
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William Hastie must have inspired his students, because several went on to find out more about meditation.
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William Hastie was ambitious, planning to build his own mission centre, but he fell out with his own employer's missionaries.
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William Hastie then published an ill-timed collection of his letters under the title "Hindu Idolatry and English Enlightenment", which annoyed the Hindu community and caused someone to assault him in the street.
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William Hastie was described as a stubborn idealist and his discussions and objections to blind faith, bigotry, and rituals were not well received.
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In parallel with his other troubles, William Hastie fell out with a Miss Pigot who was employed by the Scottish Ladies' Association.
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One source claims that it was William Hastie who was trying to expose the poor management and morals of Pigot, Superintendent of the Zenana Mission School and Orphanage.
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William Hastie claimed that the Eurasian Pigot was illegitimate and that she was having an affair with both Kali Charan Banerjee of the Free Church College and Professor James Wilson of the General Assembly's Institution.
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William Hastie had already been dismissed in 1884 and had no way of covering his costs and the fine that the court levied against him.
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William Hastie returned to Wanlockhead in 1885 to work as a translator.
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In 1892 William Hastie was chosen to deliver the Croall Lectures at the University of Edinburgh.
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William Hastie lived his final years at 23 Queens Crescent in the Blacket district of south Edinburgh.
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William Hastie died suddenly in Edinburgh on 31 August 1903 and was buried in his hometown.