JOHN WEISS
\d͡ʒˈɒn wˈa͡ɪs], \dʒˈɒn wˈaɪs], \dʒ_ˈɒ_n w_ˈaɪ_s]\
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An American clergyman, reformer, and author; born in Boston, June 28, 1818; died there, March 9, 1879. He has published: "Aesthetic Prose" (1845), a translation of Schiller's philosophical and Aesthetic essays; "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker" (2 vols., 1864); "American Religion" (1871); "Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare" (1880). He was a disciple of the Transcendental philosophy, an earnest abolitionist, an advocate of woman's political enfranchisement, and a defender of reason in religion.
By Charles Dudley Warner
