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Download or read book A Century of Science, and Other Essays (1899), by John Fiske(philosopher) written by John Fiske and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855. On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske.