George Sabine

Early Friend Pays Tribute To Sabine
The Ithaca Journal, Jan 20 1961, P. 3, Col. 6.

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   Albert Hazen Wright of 113 E Upland Rd., professor emeritus of zoology at Cornell, today paid a tribute to Prof. Emeritus George H. Sabine who died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1961, in Washington, D.C.
  Professor Wright said:
  "A dear friend tells me George Sabine has gone. George Holland Sabine was one of the most able Cornell scholars for the last 60 years. The writer, a biologist, was his roommate and distinctly felt he was the ablest mind we found in the graduate ranks of our period, 1902-1910. Probably no one served longer or better the Philosophical Review which began at Cornell. He had an independent mind. One episode suffices. I asked him, "How did you vote with the Democratic presidential candidate from your town and the Republican from Marion-both from your state ?" He answered, "I voted for Eugene Debs in prison who said he would not change what he said to get out of prison."
   "Two of the most scholarly sections of Cornell have him to thank as provost for his interest. He chose our present efficient university librarian after many interviews and began Regional History which blossomed into Cornell Archives. Dayton, Ohio, gave us three outstanding alumni, two now departed, Floyd Carlisle and now G. H. Sabine. The third we yet have, our respected colleague, Oscar von Engeln."
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George Holland Sabine 1880-1961. Memorial by Stuart Brown.
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 34, 1960, pp. 98–98.

George Holland Sabine 1880-1961
  "George H. Sabine, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, died January 18, 1961, at the age of eighty. Until almost the very end, he lived a full and active life in the Cornell community and retained full possession of his extraordinary powers.
  Born in Dayton, Ohio, on December 7, 1880, he first arrived on the Cornell campus as an undergraduate in 1899. He received the A.B. degree from Cornell in 1903 and the Ph.D. degree, also from Cornell, in 1906. Except for seven years spent at Stanford University from 1907 to 1914, his professional career was identified almost exclusively with institutions of the Middle West, counting Cornell itself as more typically Middle West than Ivy League. From 1914 to 1923, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri. From 1923 to 1931, he was at Ohio State. In 1931, he returned to Cornell where he was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy until his retirment[sic] in 1948, Dean of the Graduate School from 1940 to 1944, and Vice President of the University from 1943 to 1946. He was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Missouri and Ohio State, by Union, Kenyon, and Oberlin colleges. In 1937, he was President of the Eastern Division of this Association.
  He had a strong and abiding interest in the history of political theory, in moral ideas, and in English Puritanism. His widely known and authoritative History of Political Theory was first published in 1937. It has since been translated into Arabic, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, and Japanese. The second revision of it was completed just prior to his death and is now in press. Towards the end of his life, he became increasingly interested in Marxism and revised substantially the sections on Marxism in his History of Political Theory. In 1957, he
delivered the Telluride Lectures at Cornell, choosing Marxism as his topic. Subsequently, these lectures were published as a monograph. The last article which he wrote for publication is on the ethics of Bolshevism and will appear in the July 1961 number of the Philosophical Review.
  Sabine was a strong but quiet champion of liberal causes. He was a fine carpenter and blacksmith, a cook, and a gardener. He was a collector of lithographs and etchings. Throughout his life, when he could find the time, he indulged all of these interests and brought to all of them the intelligence and integrity of the scholar-craftsman."